Sandra Arithmetic CPU Benchmark....

[Amoeba Assassin]

What exactly does this thing do that is so stressful? I can run it once, no problems, but if i try to do a burn in, I always lock up during run 2. Here is what I can do:

Prime95 - 1 1/2 Hrs No Problem

Fold Overnight

Multi-Media CPU Benchmark as many times as desired

5 Hrs of Battlefield 1942 LAN, 2 Humans 62 Bots, I hosted the Game

Roughly 4 scattered hrs of Wolfenstein ET no problems

Full Burn in minus Arithmetic Benchmark

I get no lock ups or anything during those. This is a bit puzzling...

[Ace-a-Rue]

What board/chipset and cpu are you using?

I have similar results. I get zero erors or BSOD but I get a freeze with that bench. I am using a Hyper Threading 3G (800 mhz bus) on an Asus SD chipset board. Me think;) the HT and SD are not functioning properly with Sandra...

[Amoeba Assassin]

hmm, that could be a possibilty good point. The hardware I'm running is in my sig.

[saaya]

yeah i heard theres a HT bug with winxp. check if you get better scores with HT disbled. i heard the very same bug slows the system down with some apps

[Amoeba Assassin]

that would make sense, I'll test it out sometime

[saaya]

have you tried out the new sandra version? the max3 thing... maybe they fixed it in that... but im not sure since it seems to ba a os problem... microsoft released a aptch for that bug, but that patch got some people bsod`s ... seems you have to wait for the next sp... ms said theyll have a fix fotr that bug then.