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Nazo
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Well, I finally got around to getting Prime95 set up to work in my Linux boot disk (aka mprime,) but, the problem is that it apparently just isn't doing the job. If I set my system to something unstable like 200FSB (messed things up, that's another story) then I can run it to my heart's content in linux for as long or as short as I like. But, when I reboot and run Prime95 in Windows XP, it gets unstable (in the case of 200FSB, my system actually reboots spontaneously, but I get more normal errors like reports of rounding errors if I set the memory too high.) I'm having trouble figuring out just what it is I'm doing wrong here. When I do this in windows, I try to close down just about everything I possibly can, even stopping all stoppable services (after unplugging the internet of course, wouldn't want to shutdown my firewall with that on.) ^_^
Well, I'm trying to figure out just what the missing link is. As far as I can tell, the linux boot disk still initializes and utilizes just as much hardware (perhaps even more since I shut down whatever I can in Windows) even my soundcard though that's obviously uneeded in a "rescue" disc... I figured since it was the southbridge I screwed up, maybe the Windows test was utilizing the HD more, so I set up a little script that's constantly writing random bits to a file (should prevent it trying to get off easy there I would think) as well as another trying to constantly read in a bunch of stuff which is the best I could come up with for reading. I run this at the same time on a partition I don't mind loosing, still no crash. Heck, I may not have the video card using it's very best, but, it's using frame buffer at the highest resolution that bootdisk lets me do (1024.) There is one thing I definitely noticed though. The windows version gives you three options when you choose torture test. One of which says blend mode, tests memory & cpu a lot, the other two say they use less. It's the southbridge that has the problem, but, I still wonder. You see, the linux version doesn't appear to actually give me any choices. When I choose torture test, it just starts running. I check the options, but can't find any obvious signs of these options. If the linux version is using one of the other tests, perhaps it's just not stressing my system enough. Anyone know more about how all this works? Is it set correctly in linux by default perhaps? If I know this, at least I can get a better idea of what to look for to find the problem.
(BTW, for those who didn't see me talk about this kind of thing before, the idea here is to set up a "safe" system where the instability will do no harm to files/filesystems since it would run off of a read-only bootdisk or even maybe ramdrive or something. I tried making something for DOS, but, it just wasn't tough enough on my system to do anything.)
Well, I'm trying to figure out just what the missing link is. As far as I can tell, the linux boot disk still initializes and utilizes just as much hardware (perhaps even more since I shut down whatever I can in Windows) even my soundcard though that's obviously uneeded in a "rescue" disc... I figured since it was the southbridge I screwed up, maybe the Windows test was utilizing the HD more, so I set up a little script that's constantly writing random bits to a file (should prevent it trying to get off easy there I would think) as well as another trying to constantly read in a bunch of stuff which is the best I could come up with for reading. I run this at the same time on a partition I don't mind loosing, still no crash. Heck, I may not have the video card using it's very best, but, it's using frame buffer at the highest resolution that bootdisk lets me do (1024.) There is one thing I definitely noticed though. The windows version gives you three options when you choose torture test. One of which says blend mode, tests memory & cpu a lot, the other two say they use less. It's the southbridge that has the problem, but, I still wonder. You see, the linux version doesn't appear to actually give me any choices. When I choose torture test, it just starts running. I check the options, but can't find any obvious signs of these options. If the linux version is using one of the other tests, perhaps it's just not stressing my system enough. Anyone know more about how all this works? Is it set correctly in linux by default perhaps? If I know this, at least I can get a better idea of what to look for to find the problem.
(BTW, for those who didn't see me talk about this kind of thing before, the idea here is to set up a "safe" system where the instability will do no harm to files/filesystems since it would run off of a read-only bootdisk or even maybe ramdrive or something. I tried making something for DOS, but, it just wasn't tough enough on my system to do anything.)