Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 10:16:13 07/19/04
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On July 19, 2004 at 10:25:45, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 19, 2004 at 06:39:21, Drexel,Michael wrote: > >>On July 18, 2004 at 17:16:49, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>Here it continues to works without problems so I did not fix it. >>>Here it works without problems as long as there are no power failures. >>> >>>There was only a single case when it crashed because of a power failure in the >>>last week and there are no crashes except that obvious crash. >>> >>>A Person told me after the game against shredder that it crashed when there was >>>a network failure but as far as I know it was not connected to the internet in >>>bar-ilan. >>> >>>I guess that I will never know the reason that it crashed. >>> >>>Uri >> >>Have you downloaded and installed prime95? >>http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm >> >>Run the torture test (Blend) for at least 12 hours. >>If it errors out your Computer has most likely a hardware problem and you should >>consider to RMA it. >> >>Michael > > >As far as I see p95v238.exe is about finding primes. >What does it has to do with hardware problems? > >Uri Read the file stress.txt in the program directory. Prime95 stresses CPU and memory more than any chess program does. A flaky power supply can result in instabilities. Michael
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