Fatal Error in Prime95

[maxima88]

I ran Prime95 yesterday and after 4 1/2 hours I got a fatal error message stating "could not access temp file".
Can someone tell me what's wrong. my system looks to be running just fine. Is something wrong w/ my XP 1700+.
I've only had it for a little over a week.

 

[Kendle666]

Well...........what OS are ya running? Heh if you are running win98/98se/me 4.5 hours is good for that type of error ............

 

[maxima88]

I'm running Win98SE.
what do I need to fix?

 

[Alex99]

I've never seen that error. Usually, if I have hardware errors, Prime95 would give me an error like "Unexpected result, expected 2.3324564362345 but got 2.4565645545" or something like that.

 

[takiwa]

run prime again...if you can't duplicate the error, then it could have been the OS...if you can, then ur o/c is probably not stable for some reason...

 

[maxima88]

Well, I've been running Prime95 for over 6 hours now, it's still going. no fatal error yet.
Probably need to upgrade to Win XP, any comments?

 

[maxima88]

Still running at a cool 35c after 7hours.
Looks good.

 

[takiwa]

congrats so far...looks like it was probably the OS crapping out on ya...keep burning, bro!

 

[maxima88]

Thanks Takiwa.

 

[Starfoxer]

are ya running the regualr p95 or the torture test? those
look like some nice temps for torture test

 

[maxima88]

Thanks. I'm running the torture test.
Wish I know how to copy/attach my mbm5 screen so I can attach it here.
Can someone please show me how?

 

[OC-Master]

Actually, WinXP can be more picky for overclocking, it makes me weep since I used to be able to have my PC 100% stable on Win2K @ 1400MHz, but now I have to back down to 1350MHz to get things stable again on P95 Torture.

WindowsXPPro is more crash tallerant while NOT overclocking being less crash tallerant.


AXIA

 

[maxima88]

I got my cpu temp to 33c by letting my study room get a bit colder.

 

[Crash893]

the newest version of prime 21.4.1 i think

has a more relaxed test so it gives back less faulse error messages

ive been running prime95 for 2 years ish on many diffent comptuers ive never had the program weird out on me ever
some times i get faulse errors but it just picks up where it left off

but nothing like couldnt find a tmp file

 

[Prime95]

I ran Prime95 yesterday and after 4 1/2 hours I got a fatal error message stating "could not access temp file".
Can someone tell me what's wrong. my system looks to be running just fine. Is something wrong w/ my XP 1700+.
I've only had it for a little over a week.

Prime95 does read and write save files during the torture test. Maybe the PCI bus is overclocked too much for your hard disk. Or maybe it was a one-time glitch.

 

[maxima88]

Looks like it was a one time glitch. I've since let Prime95 torture test run for 12hours a few times since it happened.
no erros reported.
Thanks.

 

[Kendle666]

heh...........Sounds like Winblows strikes again.............