| [OC] Prime95 Crashing i7-2600k
Asus P8P67
Gskill ripjaws DDR1333 4GBx2
Xigmatek SD-1283 cooler
9600GT
Seasonic M12-600 PSU
Win7 64bit
In search of a stable over clock I've been using the 64 bit Windows version of Prime95 for stability testing. As expected, it has been ramping up the CPU, and, when the OC isn't stable, throwing errors. This I expect.
But it has also occasionally just crashed. Not the whole machine, just Prime95. I've been using this program for many years on a variety of platforms for testing stability and heat and have never seen the program itself crash.
This occurs whether I have an OC under load or even the factory defaults for my BIOS reset.
Machine doesn't misbehave in any other way, no BSODs under normal use, no regular programs randomly crashing. RAM tests fine, and so forth.
Anyone else experience this?
--
Ha ha haaaaaaa....ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
- John Lydon, last Sex Pistols show |
|
| If it is crashing something is not stable...
On the off chance is may be a bad install... go with a few other stress test programs...
Intel burn test should give the CPU a nice run for it's money... if it crashs again... something (cpu, mobo, ram, psu, hard to say at this point) is bad. |
|
| reply to gallowsroad
What is the CPU temp at 100% load? |
|
| said by AlphaOne:What is the CPU temp at 100% load?
Tops out at about 68C at full load running Prime 95.
Idle/low CPU usage temps are about 30-35C.
--
Ha ha haaaaaaa....ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
- John Lydon, last Sex Pistols show |
|
| Pardon my reading comprehension (actually, did not read the whole post, punish me now  ).
Have you tried re-installing Prime95?
It could be memory-related though. |
|
| said by AlphaOne:Pardon my reading comprehension (actually, did not read the whole post, punish me now ).
Have you tried re-installing Prime95?
It could be memory-related though.
Go stand in the corner.
Tried reinstalling. No change. Downloaded the file again in case there was a problem there.
Ran both Windows and Memtest on the RAM - came up clean. I have used both Auto settings for RAM speed and voltage, and set them per the specs of the Gskill I am using. Testing works either way.
Here's the weird thing. If I am testing an over clock that is not stable I get a regular Prime95 error. Sometimes I get no errors and the program crashes.
But even at stock when it never throws an error, the program itself will just crash. Never seen that before.
--
Ha ha haaaaaaa....ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
- John Lydon, last Sex Pistols show |
|
 NanoprobeCrunching in memory of MomPremium
join:2003-05-11
Crab Nebula
kudos:1 | I've read about others having the same problem running prime. If I remember correctly it needs to be run in blend mode for SB but I'm not sure. Have you tried Linx? |
|
