mung3r Posted January 8, 2006 Posted January 8, 2006 When I run the 32M Super PI test, the application crashes in less than a minute. This is with stock settings in the BIOS. I also ran the test after lowering my CPU and RAM below stock speeds - the application still crashes. Here's where things get weird. I decided to run the same 32M Super PI test on an older system that is all stock - the application crashes again. Next I tried running it on my laptop which you can already guess is running stock and the application still crashes. Then I thought maybe the copy of the application I have is corrupted. So I downloaded a fresh copy and tried it on my three computers again and the application still crashes. So now I'm really puzzled. I decided to ditch Super PI altogether and move on to Prime95. When I run the Prime95 torture test on my original system, my DFI system, it passes over and over without problems. So what gives? Is anyone else experiencing this strangeness with Super PI? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mung3r Posted January 8, 2006 Posted January 8, 2006 I did a little more digging and I found out that there are two versions of Super PI floating out there on the net. The one I've been having problems with is Super PI Mod 1.4 and another one I found is Super PI 1.1e (unmodified?). I tried the 32M test on Super PI 1.1e and it worked without issues on all of my machines. Anyone else having this problem? Is there a bug in the "1.4 Mod" version? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mung3r Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 This is driving me nuts. The 1.5 version came out for "mod" so I thought I would give it a try. Still crashes on my stock systems without overclock. The original 1.1e version "non-mod" completes without any problems. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shaolin95 Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 Thats freaking weird. I got at least 3 versions of super pi including 1.4 and 1.5 and I can run then at my current overclock (see sig) and also dual super pi 32mb without any problems at all. In my case dual superpi 32mb almost always means I am at least 6 or more hours of SP2004 stable (prime). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceanborn Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 How does one go about running two instances of super pi on a dual core proc? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 This is the one I use, no problems whatsoever.... Beats me whats going on man....where are you installing it/running it from? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOAethyr Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 Superpi 32m hits the memory alot more then the cpu. That's one of the 1st places I look when oc'ing the bus/memory. Then I move on to prime and s&m. Lower sized pi's in superpi though it the cpu much harder then prime or s&m. Then again diffren't clocks and cercumstances... I mean, sometimes I would fail s&m on my cpu, other times I'd fail prime. Stuff like that. Anyways I think it's a memory issue. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOAethyr Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 Hmm... Thanks for the update btw, I got the latest ver now because of you guys... I notcied something in the change logs... Maybe it's the cheat protection kicking on? It may be thinking that you're cheating ^^. Perhaps from a fluctuating timer. I wonder how many times I've got an error from it thinking it was instability when it ended up being that the timer was off a tiny bit... I guess I won't use the mod ver anymore, just in case. It's not like I care about the timer, I do, but I'm not using it to check that lol. I want it to check my cpu and memory... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nibs Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 I enjoy running Prime and SuperPi 32M at the same time. Does seem to cause some swapping though with 1GB of Ram, so also tests stability of drive with swap partition. IMHO not a terribily bad thing to do, as there are lots of real world situations where swapping takes place for me at 100% CPU usage. It also seems to isolate unstable OC very quickly on my computer. SuperPi by itself will some times be stable and so will Prime for a while (15min - 3 or 4 hours), but running them together seems to cause problems in 3 or 4 mins at shaky ocs, and within 10mins on ocs that are near the limit and would take hours of prime by itself to sort out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mung3r Posted May 13, 2006 Posted May 13, 2006 That's the one that also works for me as well. I can use the original 1.1e version without problems. Here's the link to the one that gives me headaches: http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mung3r Posted May 13, 2006 Posted May 13, 2006 I will also stick with the original non-"mod" version since I'm also using it to just test stability. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mung3r Posted November 12, 2006 Posted November 12, 2006 Check this out: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77771 So it looks like the "mod" version doesn't like it when your computer is joined to a windows domain. No wonder this version crashed on every one of my stock runing machines. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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