Prime95 Error

[Vegaslife]

Hey everyone , first post here and new to overclocking , Im running a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R with Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU and Corsair Dominator Twin2X44096-8500C5D x 4 And a BFG GTX 280 card. Less than a minute through Prime95 It stopped and this is what it said . . . FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file , any help with this one would be greatly appreciated

[phil3_66666]

you got that result with stock setting or you try to oc?

[frontier204]

Welcome to HWC :)

Well that's a Prime95 fail; did you start tweaking settings or is this at stock?
If anything is tweaked, return all settings to stock and try this again. Prime95 should be able to run for the entire lifetime of your components at stock. Remember that stock for you would mean every CPU setting is set to default / auto, but your VDIMM should be at its rated 2.1V, running at the rated DDR1066, 5-5-5-15.

How many DIMMS are you running? 4? I'd start my testing with Memtest86+ (stock CPU, RAM at the settings described by the manufacturer) to make sure your RAM is stable with all your DIMMs.

[Vegaslife]

Hey Frontier thanks for the Welcome and both of the quick replies , everything is stock havent changed anything yet but on the boot up screen Im seeing that theres a patch that has been added to the cpu if this has anything to do with anything it says . . ( CPU ID 000167a Patch ID 0a07)

[3.0charlie]

It's one thing to run stock, it's one thing to adjust the voltage based on the hardware requirements.

Raise the NB by 0.1V - you're running 4 ram sticks.
Adjust the ram voltage based on your sticks - it's written on them.

Then you may need to raise slightly the Vcore for the chip - sometimes it helps with stability.

[Eagle Eye]

Ah beat me too it charlie...4 sticks of ram

See how that works out for ya, charlie is probably right.

EE

[Vegaslife]

Thanks for all the help everyone , this ones a done deal . . defective motherboard , new board installed last night burn went great . . should have stuck with Asus