Prime 95 help

Davy644 · 12 Mar 2008 at 08:46

Hi can anybody tell me were to find the stress text file in prime95,message reads,
(FATAL ERROR rounding was 0.5 expected less than 0.4,Hardwear Failure detected,consult STRESS TEXT FILE,Torture Test ran for 3 minutes 1 Error 0 warnings,work thread 1 and 4 stopped)
Tell me how do I get to this stress text file, does this sound familiar to you guys, thanks ..Davy

TechnoCorruption · 12 Mar 2008 at 08:57

It basically means that your system is producing errors, you either need to increase voltage slightly or reduce your settings a little.

What settings/specs are you running at present?

Davy644 · 12 Mar 2008 at 09:11

Am currantly running @ 350 fside Bus,Vcore 1.256 only adjusted the FSB left the rest on auto,thanks regards davy
Temps 45 44 39 38,as soon as i find how to post my results i would like to get more involved

TechnoCorruption · 12 Mar 2008 at 10:46

My first guesses are that the vcore looks a little low for over 3GHz, you might find that if you want to go further then you have to up it slightly.

Have you manually set the ram voltage and timings?

Davy644 · 13 Mar 2008 at 02:07

Agr3sive said:
My first guesses are that the core looks a little low for over 3GHz, you might find that if you want to go further then you have to up it slightly.

Have you manually set the ram voltage and timings?

Apart from the FSB have left everything on auto,and can only get to 346=3100 on latest prime
then it starts to get unstable,
I then started to up the vcore in small steps by following are overclockers guide to a point were i stopped @ 367fsb=3303 vcore1.38 to 1.40000 as this started to have no or very little effect raising my clock speed forgot to mention my Dram frequency changed from a ratio of 1.1to 5.6 all at 2T then back again,so i gather the board P5E its doing its job and overclocking my ram speed which was also left on Auto, so to summarize i have only tinkered with the FSB clock and raised the Core to a point were its having very little effect,am now sitting @3.303,
By the way i havent changed the Bios update as i beleive we are having with this board so still have the factory setting Bios 107
cheers and thanks again

TechnoCorruption · 13 Mar 2008 at 13:05

What you want to do first is go into the bios and manually set the settings for the ram, the Crucial Ballistix is rated for 2.2v 5/5/5/15.

What I would imagine is happening is that the ram is still on auto and therefore only 1.8v. Once you have finished overclocking and are happy with an overclock then you can start lowering the memory voltage gradually, for example... my Ballistix are stable at 1140 with 2.0v.

My advice would be to set the ram settings manually and then try to raise the fsb again, the problem with having the ram on auto is that when you raise the fsb the memory gets raised too and if the ram is only at 1.8 at present then that's where I would guess the problem lies.

Davy644 · 13 Mar 2008 at 15:34

Agr3sive thanks for input mate,will have to have another bash later,I was under the impression my auto settings was giving it enough