On Sunday 10 July 2005 23:00, Jeff D. Wilson wrote: > I only get these errors when the weather is hot. Although I have multiple > fans running, I take it as a sign that the cpu needs to have the dust blown > off. So I think that the cpu temp should be eliminated as cause first > thing.
There is a difference between there being an excess rounding error which is repeatable (and therefore very probably a genuine large rounding error) and one which is not repeatable (goes away when the run is restarted from the last savefile, therefore the hardware is definitely unstable). If you have a hot CPU then you can very definitely have an unstable system as a consequence. However lots of current CPUs will throttle down to reduce current consumption (and therefore heat output) and/or turn up the fans at temperatures which are below the stability threshold temperature (unless the CPU is being overclocked!). You will probably notice a noisier and/or slower system before hardware problems become apparent. Don't ignore the possibility of overheating northbridge controllers - especially those fitted with fans which may fail - or overheating memory. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
