torture test help
 

I had a problem with a game called championship manager 4. It kept on crashing to the desktop without an error message. I was told by the creators of the game to conduct a torture tes on my pc, which I have. The problem now after coducting the torture test it gave me an error.i dont have a clue as to how sort the error out .
So can some one please help as I have read the readme.txt files but i dont understand.
Thank you

Post the error here. It is recorded in the results.txt file

side note:

Maybe we should ask Eidos to mention prime95 in the manual of their games or even link GIMPS in the help-files?

Come on: Every self-respecting elite-gamer should at least do one successful double-check to glue a glowing "Prime 95 DC approved - this box is uber" sticker on his system :whistle:

This what i get when i conduct the torture test

"FATAL ERROR:rounding was 0.49999837875, expected less then 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.

Torture test ran 0 minutes 1 error 0 warnings
execution halted"

also where is the stress.txt file located
Thanl you pleas help

The stress.txt and the results.txt are located in the directory you installed prime95 in.

If you have no idea where that is, please use the "seek files" function of your windows operating system to find those files.

Open the results.txt with your favourite editor (e.g. notepad) and post the lines containing the error and some lines before and after the error message here.

If there is NO "disregard last error..." message in your results.txt ofter the error, you have a problem with your system.

In that case:

Have you overclocked your system? Can you run popular gaming-benchmarks like 3DMark2001 or Aquamark on your system for an hour without a problem?

Please give us more details here (describe your computer as good as you can - perhaps some information about the CPU (AMD or Intel) and/or the vendor)

well this is what i get from the result.txt file

[Fri Dec 12 21:50:08 2003]
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
[Fri Dec 12 21:56:30 2003]
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
[Fri Dec 12 23:00:20 2003]
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
[Tue Dec 16 20:20:42 2003]
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.4999837875, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
[Tue Dec 16 20:36:34 2003]
Compare your results to other computers at [url]http://www.mersenne.org/bench.htm[/url]
That web page also contains instructions on how your results can be included.

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
CPU speed: 1795.24 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE
L1 cache size: 64 KB
L2 cache size: 256 KB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 64 bytes
L1 TLBS: 32
L2 TLBS: 256
Prime95 version 23.7, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 384K FFT length: 55.111 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 64.649 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 70.077 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 88.834 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 107.296 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 124.954 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 143.591 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 191.984 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 229.378 ms.

By any chance do you have an ECS or PCChips motherboard??

help
 

How do I check that out

Go do cpuid.com and d/l CPU-Z. It'll tell you all about your mobo, chipset, RAM and CPU.

My guess is you have bad RAM. What are you using anyway?