When you first described your problem, my initial thought was "Bad Stick of RAM". Now it seems even more likely. Did you run MemTest? And if so, what were the results?
If the ram tests bad across memory sticks, then it would point to CPU issues (or multiple bad sticks of memory). (Note: if your motherboard/southbridge do memory interleaving then this would be hard to tell) Also, since this computer was shipped, I would HIGHLY recommend that re-seat the memory anyways. The memory slot configuration is so prone to coming loose when computers are shipped that re-seating the dimms seems to commonly fix memory problems. Good luck, hope you get it figured out. -Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Prime] Dell Cooling--the plot thickens As suggested, I applied Arctic Silver to my new Dell's CPU, and thankfully the system didn't blow up. However the temperature drop was little to none. (I am aware of the need for a break-in period.) However, today I discovered that the system has a nVidia configuration utility that allowed me to raise the system's fan speeds significantly (enough to be plainly audible). That caused a real temperature drop according to SpeedFan. Under full load on short FFTs, the core temps are now typically 49C to 55C, which is at least 10 degrees cooler than before. This should be a good thing, right? BUT the system still gets fatal errors in the Prime95 torture test, though only on the longer FFT lengths. I've had errors at 896K and above, but I've run close to 24 hours of short (8K to 64K) FFTs with no errors. Any ideas about why this is happening? David A. Miller paledim at (ISP that rhymes with Bombast) dot net _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
