SiSoft Sandra crashes pc

bmck · 14 Feb 2006 at 21:51

Why should sisoft sandra crash my pc?

I'm running a DFI lan Party NF4 SLI Dr Expert / AMD 64X2 4400+ / OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 RAM. Only the one graphics card atm a Gigabyte X800XL fanless model.

As soon as I try a mem test or one of the combined tests the pc crashes. Note the pc's at stock - this is before I've tried overclocking it - which I was quite looking forward to doing......

It had been suggested that my RAM was faulty - but I've just ran Memtest86+ for 12hrs and there are no errors there.

Is there anything I should be doing with windows (XP Pro) wrt the dual core processor - patches or reg tweaks etc I seem to recall reading something about that but cannot recall just what. Must be the creeping senility......!

Any ideas anyone?

bmck · 14 Feb 2006 at 22:10

hmmm...... that's not what I wanted to hear. Anyone else got any ideas?

bmck · 14 Feb 2006 at 22:21

Seasonic S12 600W Silent ATX2.

Passmark runs ok too - comes up with a score of 647 - as I say, at stock. I'd really like to be able to run sisoft though.

bmck · 15 Feb 2006 at 08:34

Thanks for that Matt. I'd never been to DFI-Street before but a quick look shows that I'm not the only one with this problem. Still haven't found the cause yet - I'll have to look harder!

bmck · 15 Feb 2006 at 20:18

aha - that's interesting. There's maybe nothing wrong with my pc after all.....