What does this mean?? Prime95 question...

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I've got a computer in to be repaired and it's giving me fits. THe customer complained of a loud fan, so I ran Prime95 in torture test to see if I could get the fan to be loud...it was loud for about 3 minutes until Prime95 errored out. I have never seen Prime95 error out so fast. What could this mean?? I think it could be one of three things...

1) Processor is getting too hot.

2) The motherboard is bad.

3) His windows xp install is corrupted.

I am currently doing a repair install on his machine and then will run Prime95 again.

The processor is an Athlon XP 2100+. I don't have an extra one laying around or I would try to see if the proc is going bad.

Anyone help would be appreciated. I am stumped here.
 
Is the machine overclocked in any way?
Is the ram running at correct timings?
Are voltages running at spec?
Is everything adequately cooled?

Any one of these factors could cause prime 95 to fail. These are what I would check first. :)
 
cpu-z to find out basic settings.
If you have a digital multi-meter you can scope out voltages from the psu to make sure they're ok. My best guess is either heat is choking out the cpu or the ram is flaky. An old compaq would be hard as hell to do anything fishy in the bios. ;)
 
does speedfan / everest / sandra give any temp readings? try swapping out the heatsink and see what happens
 
ziddey said:
does speedfan / everest / sandra give any temp readings? try swapping out the heatsink and see what happens
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I don't think I have an old Socket A heatsink. I am very early in my testing of this machine though, so I'm pretty clueless at this point. It uses dialup (AOL) and I hate dialup and AOL, but he doesn't know any better.
 
Remove the HSF, clean out ALL the dust (;)) and replace the stock pad or whatever with AS5.
 
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