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avoid disk crash while overclocking?
Sometimes when testing the limits of an overclocked system, the hard drive
may crash requiring the OS to be re-installed. But without the hard drive, it is hard to run stress tests (most run under winXP). What do you do to avoid having to re-install the OS over and over? |
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avoid disk crash while overclocking?
john wrote:
Sometimes when testing the limits of an overclocked system, the hard drive may crash requiring the OS to be re-installed. But without the hard drive, it is hard to run stress tests (most run under winXP). What do you do to avoid having to re-install the OS over and over? Run a real OS with a journaled file system (eg ext3 or ReiserFS) that can clean up after itself after a crash. |
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john wrote:
Sometimes when testing the limits of an overclocked system, the hard drive may crash requiring the OS to be re-installed. But without the hard drive, it is hard to run stress tests (most run under winXP). What do you do to avoid having to re-install the OS over and over? Run a Linux LiveCD (Knoppix or Ubuntu). The CD can be booted, without any hard drive connected. Once Linux is running, download the Linux version of Prime95 from mersenne.org . I've had four copies of the single threaded version running, as it is easy to do that on Linux. (Just create four separate folders, with a copy of the Prime95 download unzipped into each one. CD to the directory in question, and start the program ./prime95 , setting the memory test limits to 1/4 of the total free. Such a test setup would be suitable for a quad core. I use a terminal window for each copy, so I can scroll back and look at the test results. A fifth window can be used to display "top", to see free memory and processor occupancy.) (Example of "top" program) http://www.anddev.org/images/apps/co...ectbot_top.png Paul |
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This boot CD for Windows has prime95 on it. Boots real slow, though. A pain to make one. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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avoid disk crash while overclocking?
'2CA001' wrote: Run a real OS with a journaled file system (eg ext3 or ReiserFS) that can clean up after itself after a crash. _____ Well, no. Not sufficient (see NTFS). And on the other hand, the OS need be reinstalled only very rarely, if ever, when a system hangs during overclocking limits tests UNLESS THE BUS ON WHICH THE SYSTEM HARD DRIVE CONTROLLER RESIDES IS OVERCLOCKED. Phil Weldon "2CA001" wrote in message ... john wrote: Sometimes when testing the limits of an overclocked system, the hard drive may crash requiring the OS to be re-installed. But without the hard drive, it is hard to run stress tests (most run under winXP). What do you do to avoid having to re-install the OS over and over? Run a real OS with a journaled file system (eg ext3 or ReiserFS) that can clean up after itself after a crash. |
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avoid disk crash while overclocking?
"Phil Weldon" wrote in message ... '2CA001' wrote: Run a real OS with a journaled file system (eg ext3 or ReiserFS) that can clean up after itself after a crash. _____ Well, no. Not sufficient (see NTFS). And on the other hand, the OS need be reinstalled only very rarely, if ever, when a system hangs during overclocking limits tests UNLESS THE BUS ON WHICH THE SYSTEM HARD DRIVE CONTROLLER RESIDES IS OVERCLOCKED. And to amplify on this you need a really old (2-3 years old) motherboard that has the hard drive PCI bus overclock by default when overclocking the FSB. In most cases the BIOS will default the PCI bus at 33MHZ even if your FSB is overclocked. Phil Weldon "2CA001" wrote in message ... john wrote: Sometimes when testing the limits of an overclocked system, the hard drive may crash requiring the OS to be re-installed. But without the hard drive, it is hard to run stress tests (most run under winXP). What do you do to avoid having to re-install the OS over and over? Run a real OS with a journaled file system (eg ext3 or ReiserFS) that can clean up after itself after a crash. |
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avoid disk crash while overclocking?
On Aug 14, 11:27*pm, Paul wrote:
john wrote: Sometimes when testing the limits of an overclocked system, the hard drive may crash requiring the OS to be re-installed. But without the hard drive, it is hard to run stress tests (most run under winXP). What do you do to avoid having to re-install the OS over and over? Run a Linux LiveCD (Knoppix or Ubuntu). The CD can be booted, without any hard drive connected. Once Linux is running, download the Linux version of Prime95 from mersenne.org . A little less work is to use Stresslinux, has the programs already installed and is small (100MB). Can be CD or USB flash booted, or put on a small partition, if the partition gets hosed just dd a backup copy over it. It can also be customized so it will boot right into your preferred test HTH |
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