For history of my machine, you can read this long thread.
As you can probably guess from the end of it, my system ended up stable. Since April I have had zero problems. Not a single BSOD or other error of any kind except for a mouse failure that turned out to be exactly what it sounds like, a failure of the hardware itself.
A few days ago, while I was away on business, my wife called to say the computer "was on that screen with all the numbers and at the bottom it says 'hard disk failure, insert system disk and press enter'" or roughly that.
I had her power the entire box down and restart and she got the same error so I told her I couldn't walk her through the next steps over the phone and to just power it back down and leave it till I got home (she's got a netbook she can use when this box is not available). Of course, this gave me heartburn. I routinely back up important data from my HD but a genuine HD failure is still a major pain.
However, the next morning she sent me an email saying she had turned the system back on and it booted and was working normally. Hmmmm. OK. Thanks.
So this morning, I got a BSOD "page fault in a non paged area" while just looking at email.
So I ran the Seagate test program (just the short version) with no errors. Then I ran Memtest86+ v4.00 through a pass with no errors. Then I ran Prime95 and got a fatal error on core 1 during test 5. "Rounding error was 0.5, expected less than 0.4." The high temp recorded by cortemp was only 69, which is actually the lowest high temp of the four cores.
So what does it mean? Glitch? Heat? (It's not hot in the room at all.) Power supply? Karma?
As you can probably guess from the end of it, my system ended up stable. Since April I have had zero problems. Not a single BSOD or other error of any kind except for a mouse failure that turned out to be exactly what it sounds like, a failure of the hardware itself.
A few days ago, while I was away on business, my wife called to say the computer "was on that screen with all the numbers and at the bottom it says 'hard disk failure, insert system disk and press enter'" or roughly that.
I had her power the entire box down and restart and she got the same error so I told her I couldn't walk her through the next steps over the phone and to just power it back down and leave it till I got home (she's got a netbook she can use when this box is not available). Of course, this gave me heartburn. I routinely back up important data from my HD but a genuine HD failure is still a major pain.
However, the next morning she sent me an email saying she had turned the system back on and it booted and was working normally. Hmmmm. OK. Thanks.
So this morning, I got a BSOD "page fault in a non paged area" while just looking at email.
So I ran the Seagate test program (just the short version) with no errors. Then I ran Memtest86+ v4.00 through a pass with no errors. Then I ran Prime95 and got a fatal error on core 1 during test 5. "Rounding error was 0.5, expected less than 0.4." The high temp recorded by cortemp was only 69, which is actually the lowest high temp of the four cores.
So what does it mean? Glitch? Heat? (It's not hot in the room at all.) Power supply? Karma?
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