Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 17:29:22 05/10/03
Go up one level in this thread
Try grabbing prime95 and running that for a while to make to test some stability. You can grab it here: ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2212.exe Just select "Stress testing" when running/installing. After the program is up click options, torture test. This will stress your cpu mainly, but does test your main memory as well. If you get a "Hardware failure" in prime95, a reboot, a lockup, or etc you probably have a hardware problem. The first thing I'd do is check your cooling, make sure the fan is operating and there isn't dust caked on the heatsink (under the fan blocking airflow). This happened to an old celeron 566@1004 I had in a back room for about a year. It started acting unstable so I checked the cpu temp, was 70C full load. I cleaned the heatsink off completely, reapplied arctic silver 3 (thermal compound) and the cpu was back to low 40C's full load and completely stable. If all is fine in the cooling area, try prime95. If you get problems with that (and even if you don't) test your memory with Memtest86. Available at www.memtest86.com for free. It's an excellent memory tester. Many people I know with instabilities that they couldn't figure out ended up being caused by bad ram. Make sure your hardware is opterating properly before blaming chessbase. It could be that the other stuff you're running doesn't 'stress' your hardware enough to cause the problem. Try these two programs I mentioned and post the results of the stability tests..
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.