- Apr 11, 2007
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Hi all,
I?ve been encountering random CRC errors when installing some games and big apps over the past few weeks. I thought that it might be a software problem, but after Googling around I came across some others that seamed to have a similar problem. And their problem was harder ware related, mainly RAM trouble.
I?ve ran some of the test software suggested in those posts but I?m not sure how to interpret the results
no overclocking my specs are:
AMD 3500 64 Winchester
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
2 x Crucial Ballistic 512Mb DDR PC3800
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA 120 GB
Antec SL400 400W PSU
XFX GeForce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3, PCI-E
Memtest results where 165 errors (161 on test #5, 4 on test #7)
I tried changing the voltage in the BIOS from ?Auto? to 2.7, 2.75 and 2.8. running Memtest again resulted in only 20 errors this time.
My question is how bad these errors are and could they be causing the CRC errors and my systems increasing instability while gaming?
I?ve also seen people post that Memtest has trouble with Winchester chips, giving false readings?
Stress Prime 2004 was the next tool I ran which also gave the following report:
Type: Blend - stress CPU and RAM Min: 8 Max: 4096 InPlace: No Mem: 767 Time: 15
CPU: 2211MHz FSB: 200MHz [201MHz x 11.0 est.]
10/04/2007 03:25 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.4987182617, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 1 minutes 17 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
I?ve try this tool a few time again changing the Volts but it comes back with similar results.
I?m going to see if I can pop my RAM into a friends PC, run memtest and see if I get similar results.
is there anything else I could try or does the tools point to fault RAM?
Thanks
I?ve been encountering random CRC errors when installing some games and big apps over the past few weeks. I thought that it might be a software problem, but after Googling around I came across some others that seamed to have a similar problem. And their problem was harder ware related, mainly RAM trouble.
I?ve ran some of the test software suggested in those posts but I?m not sure how to interpret the results
no overclocking my specs are:
AMD 3500 64 Winchester
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
2 x Crucial Ballistic 512Mb DDR PC3800
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA 120 GB
Antec SL400 400W PSU
XFX GeForce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3, PCI-E
Memtest results where 165 errors (161 on test #5, 4 on test #7)
I tried changing the voltage in the BIOS from ?Auto? to 2.7, 2.75 and 2.8. running Memtest again resulted in only 20 errors this time.
My question is how bad these errors are and could they be causing the CRC errors and my systems increasing instability while gaming?
I?ve also seen people post that Memtest has trouble with Winchester chips, giving false readings?
Stress Prime 2004 was the next tool I ran which also gave the following report:
Type: Blend - stress CPU and RAM Min: 8 Max: 4096 InPlace: No Mem: 767 Time: 15
CPU: 2211MHz FSB: 200MHz [201MHz x 11.0 est.]
10/04/2007 03:25 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.4987182617, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 1 minutes 17 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
I?ve try this tool a few time again changing the Volts but it comes back with similar results.
I?m going to see if I can pop my RAM into a friends PC, run memtest and see if I get similar results.
is there anything else I could try or does the tools point to fault RAM?
Thanks