Been having some problems....

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

So i installed Prime95 as my pc has been restarting more or less once a day for a while now with no reason at all.
I ran the test thing on Prime and the Worker#2 said hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Anyone know how to get into that file??
Also i had task manager cpu usage up and after it said that the second core (dual core cpu) fell from full usage to just idling.

(TSC)Bender · Rated NC-17 Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 162

The stress.txt file comes with Prime95. Basically has general Q&A if u encounter failures running it. The second core idling seems a little weird too. Both of mine start crunching numbers full blast when the stress test is running

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

Oooo it started......then 2 minutes later the worker log thing, which i assume is connected to the cores, reported a hardware failure and then the core started to idle. Can one of two cores break in a processor??

motanacu · Rated NC-17 Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 104

i don`t think so, test your RAM memory first

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

How do you go about doing that??

mrweasel · Posted: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:18:58 Post Subject:

you're not overclocking are you?

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

No i auto overclocked my gpu few weeks back but set everything back to stock as my case jsut does not have the cooling, so everything is at stock at the minute.

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

memtest86+ is available on the trinity rescue disc. Try using that.

anduril · Posted: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:34:05 Post Subject:

You could have a faulty core in your processor that only really shows itself under certain operations or stresses. What type of processor is it? What are temps like when running Prime?

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

Running a Pentium D 945 (3.4ghz) according to CPUZ and ill have to check the temps later but they dont seem too high as my fans stay reasonably quiet when its running.