my rig failed primetest

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Limp Gawd
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Last night i ran primetest on my rig. (see signature for system specs) woke up this morning to check it. And after 6.5 hours of it running it said that there was a hardware failure. That's the first time i've ever ran that utility. Does that message mean that there is a problem with just my cpu or could it be something else?
 
On my Intel system, once I got the OC dialed in, I had the same issue. Increasing the Vcore for the CPU a little solved it completely. I increased it one "notch" which I think is 50 mV on my motherboard, but I'm too lazy this AM to reboot to get to the bios and check.....:D

Be sure to read the "stress.txt" file that came with Prime95. In it, it says:

If you are overclocking then try increasing the core voltage, reduce the CPU speed, reduce the front side bus speed, or change the memory timings (CAS latency).
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...which is solid advice.

Good luck - B.B.S.
 
THanks blinded, the only part of mysystem that is running overclocked is the ram. its running 2.75v rather than the 2.6v the motherboard reccomends. could that be part of the problem? but i tried to find that .txt file.. but i have the ultimate boot cd, and cant find that file.. i'll d/l prime95 on its own and find that .txt file. heh Other than the RAM its all running at stock speeds/ghz/etc....
 
...might try giving Vcore a smal bump anyway. Watch your temps; I can't imagine it'd hurt. It would be a good idea to check with the guys OC'ing your processor and see what types of Vcore they are running. As I said, try a very small increase and see..... :cool:

Good Luck - B.B.S.
 
i believe it was large FFT. with the ubcd i selected primetest and it automaticly began.. judging by the sizes i saw it prolly is large i'm guessing.
 
i might try and run memtest tonight while i sleep just incase that its a memory problem. since i've never messed around with cpu bios settings i'm kinda leary of doing that. but i'm going to see any of the guys in sudhian forum or here have oced and what they suggest with vcore, etc
 
it was meerly by accident.. the ram i bought is 2.75v while my motherboard is 2.6v for the ram. so by default it set the ram to 2.75v. i haven't bothered to turn it back down to 2.6v. though i think i might give that a try, maybe thats causing some instability?
 
memtest86 has been running for about 7hours so far, and no errors have shown up yet. I'm letting it continue as i am at work and will check when i get home.

if it ends without any errors, the problem would have to lie somewhere within in the motherboard/cpu most likely, am i right?
 
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