CD Bootable Prime95 Substitute

~misfit~

Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>> Ed Light wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks, guys.
>>>
>>> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading
>>> the package right now.
>>
>> It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
>> memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.
>
> Thanks for that Ed. I believe that I actually have Ultimate Boot CD
> burnt and stashed away somewhere (never used it, LOL). I'll have to
> dig it out and have a go.

Heh! So I had a tool that will do it here the whole time! I have ver 4.1.1
(I think, it's written on the disk which is in another machine right now).

It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same time. Still,
that's asking a bit much from a bootable CD, maybe a USB solution would
hadle that.

Oh, it didn't even complete one test. (I know the machine's stable.) It came
up with "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." after about 60 seconds. :-(

Ok, LOL, it's still running, the second test/line just appeared on screen.
(It's an old Athlon XP T'bredB currently running at 1.8GHz. It'll do 2.2
easy but there's no need for it in it's current use.) I guess the version of
Prime must just have a bit of extra reporting built-in.
--
Shaun.

Phil Weldon

'Shaun' wrote, in part:
_____

I'd be satisfied with ANY reliable temperature monitor with ANY operating
system- I still haven't found anything for my EVGA 680i motherboard for all
the temperatures that the BIOS reports, even for monitoring applets that
correctly identify the Winbond chip! MotherBoard Monitor (and simpler
motherboards) spoiled us.

And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(

Perhaps there's a small 'nix bootable system & monitoring applet?

Phil Weldon

"~misfit~" <.au> wrote in message
news:483cbde9$.nz...
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:
>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>>> Ed Light wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, guys.
>>>>
>>>> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading
>>>> the package right now.
>>>
>>> It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
>>> memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.
>>
>> Thanks for that Ed. I believe that I actually have Ultimate Boot CD
>> burnt and stashed away somewhere (never used it, LOL). I'll have to
>> dig it out and have a go.
>
> Heh! So I had a tool that will do it here the whole time! I have ver 4.1.1
> (I think, it's written on the disk which is in another machine right now).
>
> It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same time. Still,
> that's asking a bit much from a bootable CD, maybe a USB solution would
> hadle that.
>
> Oh, it didn't even complete one test. (I know the machine's stable.) It
> came up with "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." after about 60 seconds. :-(
>
> Ok, LOL, it's still running, the second test/line just appeared on screen.
> (It's an old Athlon XP T'bredB currently running at 1.8GHz. It'll do 2.2
> easy but there's no need for it in it's current use.) I guess the version
> of Prime must just have a bit of extra reporting built-in.
> --
> Shaun.
>

Phil Weldon

'Shaun' wrote, in part:
_____

I'd be satisfied with ANY reliable temperature monitor with ANY operating
system- I still haven't found anything for my EVGA 680i motherboard for all
the temperatures that the BIOS reports, even for monitoring applets that
correctly identify the Winbond chip! MotherBoard Monitor (and simpler
motherboards) spoiled us.

And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(

Perhaps there's a small 'nix bootable system & monitoring applet?

Phil Weldon

"~misfit~" <.au> wrote in message
news:483cbde9$.nz...
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:
>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>>> Ed Light wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, guys.
>>>>
>>>> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading
>>>> the package right now.
>>>
>>> It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
>>> memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.
>>
>> Thanks for that Ed. I believe that I actually have Ultimate Boot CD
>> burnt and stashed away somewhere (never used it, LOL). I'll have to
>> dig it out and have a go.
>
> Heh! So I had a tool that will do it here the whole time! I have ver 4.1.1
> (I think, it's written on the disk which is in another machine right now).
>
> It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same time. Still,
> that's asking a bit much from a bootable CD, maybe a USB solution would
> hadle that.
>
> Oh, it didn't even complete one test. (I know the machine's stable.) It
> came up with "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." after about 60 seconds. :-(
>
> Ok, LOL, it's still running, the second test/line just appeared on screen.
> (It's an old Athlon XP T'bredB currently running at 1.8GHz. It'll do 2.2
> easy but there's no need for it in it's current use.) I guess the version
> of Prime must just have a bit of extra reporting built-in.
> --
> Shaun.
>

Fishface

Phil Weldon wrote:

> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(

Maybe they'll update it?

I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after all.
It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?

Fishface

Phil Weldon wrote:

> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(

Maybe they'll update it?

I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after all.
It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?

Phil Weldon

'Fishface' wrote, in part:
> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
> all.
> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
_____

I don't know whether my EVGA 680i works with the 45 nm Core 2 CPUs or not
(in fact, my early 680i may not even work nicely with a 65 nm quad.

At this point, after sticking with my E4300 for 13 months, I might as well
wait the whole two years and go for a 'Nehalem', DDR3, and a new motherboard
in April 2009. After all, I stuck with an overclocked Pentium 4 2.6 until
the E4300. I don't have the 'pass-along' chain I once had (starting with a
Pentium 90); my wife and son are laptop only now and my daughter deserted to
Apple. As for my brother, well, he's still running Windows 98 on his
machines (not a gamer, and his 4 foot wide plotter might have a driver
problem) and has yet to set up the Pentium 4 2.6 GHz I gave him a year ago.

Phil Weldon

"Fishface" <?> wrote in message
news:zk4%j.4841$oV.1051@trndny03...
> Phil Weldon wrote:
>
>> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(
>
> Maybe they'll update it?
>
> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
> all.
> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
>

Phil Weldon

'Fishface' wrote, in part:
> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
> all.
> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
_____

I don't know whether my EVGA 680i works with the 45 nm Core 2 CPUs or not
(in fact, my early 680i may not even work nicely with a 65 nm quad.

At this point, after sticking with my E4300 for 13 months, I might as well
wait the whole two years and go for a 'Nehalem', DDR3, and a new motherboard
in April 2009. After all, I stuck with an overclocked Pentium 4 2.6 until
the E4300. I don't have the 'pass-along' chain I once had (starting with a
Pentium 90); my wife and son are laptop only now and my daughter deserted to
Apple. As for my brother, well, he's still running Windows 98 on his
machines (not a gamer, and his 4 foot wide plotter might have a driver
problem) and has yet to set up the Pentium 4 2.6 GHz I gave him a year ago.

Phil Weldon

"Fishface" <?> wrote in message
news:zk4%j.4841$oV.1051@trndny03...
> Phil Weldon wrote:
>
>> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(
>
> Maybe they'll update it?
>
> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
> all.
> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
>

~misfit~

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Phil Weldon" typed:
> 'Shaun' wrote, in part:
> _____
>
> I'd be satisfied with ANY reliable temperature monitor with ANY
> operating system- I still haven't found anything for my EVGA 680i
> motherboard for all the temperatures that the BIOS reports, even for
> monitoring applets that correctly identify the Winbond chip!

That must be frustrating. I'm fairly happy with the temp monitoring apps I'm
using with my P35 mobo after trying everything I could find I'm using
CoreTemp and SpeedFan with Hard Disk Sentinel taking care of the four HDDs.

> MotherBoard Monitor (and simpler motherboards) spoiled us.

Indeed, those were the days. I still have MBM5 installed for the CPU usage
display in the systray, it's pretty much useless for anything else..

> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(

I was intending to get an E8400 at some stage but my E4500 is ticking along
nicely at 3.2 GHz/400Mhz FSB (It'll run stable at 413MHz/3.3GHz but I
decided to round it down, I'm not taxing it in the slightest as it is). As
it's more than adequate for everything I'm throwing at it I've decided
there's not much point (other than bragging rights) in me getting an E4500.
At least not in the foreseeable future.

> Perhaps there's a small 'nix bootable system & monitoring applet?

Now that would be good indeed. A USB based system perhaps.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

> "~misfit~" <.au> wrote in message
> news:483cbde9$.nz...
>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:
>>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>>>> Ed Light wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, guys.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading
>>>>> the package right now.
>>>>
>>>> It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
>>>> memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.
>>>
>>> Thanks for that Ed. I believe that I actually have Ultimate Boot CD
>>> burnt and stashed away somewhere (never used it, LOL). I'll have to
>>> dig it out and have a go.
>>
>> Heh! So I had a tool that will do it here the whole time! I have ver
>> 4.1.1 (I think, it's written on the disk which is in another machine
>> right now). It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same
>> time.
>> Still, that's asking a bit much from a bootable CD, maybe a USB
>> solution would hadle that.
>>
>> Oh, it didn't even complete one test. (I know the machine's stable.)
>> It came up with "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." after about 60
>> seconds. :-( Ok, LOL, it's still running, the second test/line just
>> appeared on
>> screen. (It's an old Athlon XP T'bredB currently running at 1.8GHz.
>> It'll do 2.2 easy but there's no need for it in it's current use.) I
>> guess the version of Prime must just have a bit of extra reporting
>> built-in. --
>> Shaun.

~misfit~

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Phil Weldon" typed:
> 'Shaun' wrote, in part:
> _____
>
> I'd be satisfied with ANY reliable temperature monitor with ANY
> operating system- I still haven't found anything for my EVGA 680i
> motherboard for all the temperatures that the BIOS reports, even for
> monitoring applets that correctly identify the Winbond chip!

That must be frustrating. I'm fairly happy with the temp monitoring apps I'm
using with my P35 mobo after trying everything I could find I'm using
CoreTemp and SpeedFan with Hard Disk Sentinel taking care of the four HDDs.

> MotherBoard Monitor (and simpler motherboards) spoiled us.

Indeed, those were the days. I still have MBM5 installed for the CPU usage
display in the systray, it's pretty much useless for anything else..

> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(

I was intending to get an E8400 at some stage but my E4500 is ticking along
nicely at 3.2 GHz/400Mhz FSB (It'll run stable at 413MHz/3.3GHz but I
decided to round it down, I'm not taxing it in the slightest as it is). As
it's more than adequate for everything I'm throwing at it I've decided
there's not much point (other than bragging rights) in me getting an E4500.
At least not in the foreseeable future.

> Perhaps there's a small 'nix bootable system & monitoring applet?

Now that would be good indeed. A USB based system perhaps.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

> "~misfit~" <.au> wrote in message
> news:483cbde9$.nz...
>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:
>>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>>>> Ed Light wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, guys.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading
>>>>> the package right now.
>>>>
>>>> It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
>>>> memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.
>>>
>>> Thanks for that Ed. I believe that I actually have Ultimate Boot CD
>>> burnt and stashed away somewhere (never used it, LOL). I'll have to
>>> dig it out and have a go.
>>
>> Heh! So I had a tool that will do it here the whole time! I have ver
>> 4.1.1 (I think, it's written on the disk which is in another machine
>> right now). It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same
>> time.
>> Still, that's asking a bit much from a bootable CD, maybe a USB
>> solution would hadle that.
>>
>> Oh, it didn't even complete one test. (I know the machine's stable.)
>> It came up with "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." after about 60
>> seconds. :-( Ok, LOL, it's still running, the second test/line just
>> appeared on
>> screen. (It's an old Athlon XP T'bredB currently running at 1.8GHz.
>> It'll do 2.2 easy but there's no need for it in it's current use.) I
>> guess the version of Prime must just have a bit of extra reporting
>> built-in. --
>> Shaun.

Ed Medlin

"Phil Weldon" <> wrote in message
news: m...
> 'Fishface' wrote, in part:
>> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
>> all.
>> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
> _____
>
> I don't know whether my EVGA 680i works with the 45 nm Core 2 CPUs or not
> (in fact, my early 680i may not even work nicely with a 65 nm quad.
>
> At this point, after sticking with my E4300 for 13 months, I might as well
> wait the whole two years and go for a 'Nehalem', DDR3, and a new
> motherboard in April 2009. After all, I stuck with an overclocked Pentium
> 4 2.6 until the E4300. I don't have the 'pass-along' chain I once had
> (starting with a Pentium 90); my wife and son are laptop only now and my
> daughter deserted to Apple. As for my brother, well, he's still running
> Windows 98 on his machines (not a gamer, and his 4 foot wide plotter might
> have a driver problem) and has yet to set up the Pentium 4 2.6 GHz I gave
> him a year ago.
>
> Phil Weldon
>
> "Fishface" <?> wrote in message
> news:zk4%j.4841$oV.1051@trndny03...
>> Phil Weldon wrote:
>>
>>> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(
>>
>> Maybe they'll update it?
>>
>> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
>> all.
>> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
>>
>