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PRIME95 kills my PC

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Jugo4c

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Hey everyone, first of all this is my set up
amd 2500
xms 3200 1gb(2X512)
nf7-s
antec sonata 380w
thermaltake silentboost

just got everything installed 3 days ago, i tried to oc but it ran like crap even at 11x185 vcore 1.7(random shut downs) so I moved it to stock speeds for everything ran 3dmark 5554 top score, ran memory benches on sandra, for the most part this thing is ok at stock then i tried prime95 at stock which never makes it past 45 seconds oc'd or stock always says rounding was .49 expect less than .4...... it even crashes after a minute at stock speeds same error message.

I tried using only one stick of memory , each stick gives me the same error... only other thing i have in my cpu is a radeon 9800pro which i dont think would affect prime95... could i have a bad barton if it wont OC and it cant run prime at stock?? how could i be sure ?? any suggestions im open to anything thanks alot
am i running prime right? i didnt change any setting just hit torture test
 
generally it ain't the chip (this is due to my experience and problems solved that i've read... i'd try upping the voltage to your memory if i werest thou. 2.8v should be no sweat, and then drop the voltage on your processor to stock and then up the fsb straight to 200 ;D

you should be able to run 3200 speeds no sweat, IMO.
 
I have almost the exact same setup as you...

What mem timings are you running? Does upping vDDR help? What kinda temps are you getting? Have you tried running memtest86 to see if you might have gotten a scummy stick of XMS ram?

G'Luck - and I'll check back in on this thread tomorow.
 
Me thinks that your RAM timings are set to aggressivly or your cooling is off, on of the two.

Set the RAM at AUTO and SPD, whatever your board offers. Of course this should be done at a 333MHz bus speed. Run Prime95 again.

Also what are your temp looking like? What cooling? Stock or aftermarket?

We need more information than what you have given us.
 
temps are not bad about 40c load running it all stock now vdimm is 2.8 vcore 1.675.. cooling is thermaltake silent boost its running fine .. i actually just oced it to 190x11 and got into windows then it crashed after about 10 minutes of doin stuff.. this was done with a single stick of ram...so i figured i might have had one good one bad stick(even though its twinx) so i ran memtest86 for about an hour or 2 and got more errors than passes does that guarantee that the ram is defective???? the setting are at 2-3-3-7
the ram is rated for atleast 2-3-3-6 so i dont think thats the problem plus the vdimm is at 2.8... well am i missing something or does this prove the ram is defective... i got errors with both sticks on memtest and when i interchange the ram and settings still errors.....
thanks thinks thats all
 
I'd relax the timings way way back just to make sure that's not the problem then run memtest again. Try testing with each stick in by itself before you check the timings to isolate if you are having problems with only one stick. If you are getting identical errors with either stick in - you have a configuration problem - or maybe power supply?

Certainly sounds like a bad stick of ram or some messed up settings. You should _not_ be getting that many errors in memtest86...
 
thnx... yea dewhite are setups are almost exactly the same i even have the lite on
 
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