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#1 User is offline   azagahl 

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Posted 06 January 2007 - 08:51 PM

I put together this dual-core system, and it can run SuperPi fine, but as soon as I start a calculation in a second SuperPi instance, the second calculation almost INSTANTLY errors out saying ""NOT CONVERGENT IN SQR05". I haven't attempted to overclock anything.

Any ideas? :(

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Posted 06 January 2007 - 09:20 PM

i should most honestly hope that you mean 400GB drives in there. [everyone makes typos]

the OS, i should assume its Windows XP, although, if it is Vista [as some use it heavily] it may be the fact that Vista is not completed yet, and may not be able to.

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Posted 06 January 2007 - 10:20 PM

well thats odd.
http://www.techpower...m/downloads/385
try using orthos, its a version of prime95 that tests both cores at the same time. personally i could care less about superpi.

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 12:25 AM

For AMD cpu's but might have some helpful information.
http://forums.amd.co...showtopic=64936

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 01:26 AM

Since this is a new build and all... Have you checked in the BIOS to be sure that the RAM and CPU are running at the recommended voltages?

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 08:54 AM

View PostDigeratiPrime, on Jan 7 2007, 01:25 AM, said:

For AMD cpu's but might have some helpful information.
http://forums.amd.co...showtopic=64936

all he needs are these

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...amdcpusetup.exe
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...ities/Setup.exe

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 09:01 AM

View Postripken204, on Jan 7 2007, 09:54 AM, said:

View PostDigeratiPrime, on Jan 7 2007, 01:25 AM, said:

For AMD cpu's but might have some helpful information.
http://forums.amd.co...showtopic=64936

all he needs are these

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...amdcpusetup.exe
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...ities/Setup.exe


Really?? For his Conroe?? --- Intel!

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 09:18 AM

oh sry, lol. that was in response to DigeratiPrime

have u tried orthos yet?

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 05:45 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. Orthos sounds interesting. Memtest works fine on my PC, but I've seen it work on exremely unstable PC's before. Two instances of Prime95 work but they make a 2.5 GB pagefile so they seem to test the disks more than anything else.

Hahahaha.. I'm a total n00b. Two superpis run from the same place cause the same error on my other single core PC. But when run from different directories, no error occurs.

So my Pc is stable AFAIK. And I actually have Radeon X1800 XL and my two 400 GB disks form a raid 0 volume. It rocks so far!

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 06:07 PM

haha, i forgot about that, that happened to me too a while back.

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