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Well that is bad news Just for giggles, I loaded up another boot disk with XP and mostly default drivers. I get the same rebooting behavior upon launching Prime95/blend. I fully tested the RAM a few posts back so I suppose this just confirms the bad news. This sucks. Pretty please make it be fixed without acquiring new hardware

Potentially. But 1) I need to be mobile 2) There are multiple, independent networks in the same physical environment so I couldn't always transfer a spreadsheet around. You methods look good, but you got the Endianness reversed. Intel is Little Endian whereas Motorola is Big. Here is a stupid question from a non-math guy: why did you change from word to dword? The math is the same except for the extra 1-bits (Fs). Are you trying to change the endianness in the calcuator or are you trying to manually display the extra bits at the end to make it easier to remember the full state? That is certainly a faster/easier way to do it. But the behavior or +/- is not consistent in my calc. For example, if you go back to hex at the end of the steps you outlined and then hit +/- again you will get 'A' instead of '-FFF6'. Why does the behavior change?I will study these and pose questions soon

I bumped up my CPU voltage to 1.3000 in the BIOS and it reads as 1.2888 in monitoring software now. After a fresh boot, I ran Prime95 again. It still dropped into a reboot, but did seem to survive for perhaps 2-3 seconds longer than before. Where did you get that BIOS version number? I'm currently running 0502 from AMI, dated 5/5/09. The latest version on the Asus product page (under downloads) is 0504, dated 5/25/09. I don't know where you got a version 1003 from. Could disabling any CPU features in the BIOS make a difference? Features such as VT, VT-d and Execute Disable Bit while SpeedStep is disabled.

Coffeefiend to my rescue once again If it helps, I can narrow down some of the variables you listed: -Always on 32bit x86 -Compiler:gcc and cl from VS2008. -Languages: always plain C and asm. Calling convention: cdecl I'll write out the conventions we are using as applied to your examples: void main() { if(string1==string2) { int x = 1; in ASM, our first var would be [ESP-4] int y = 2; in ASM, our next var would be [ESP-8] ... } } In ASM: push ebp mov ebp, esp sub esp,8 ;total size of vars mov [ESP-4],1 mov eax,[ESP-4] mov [ESP-8],2 cmp eax,[ESP-8] jne _whereever_we_are_going So I am manually building my own cheat sheet on such things but the going is slow and a nice reference would save me tons of time. Opcode cheat sheets are the closest thing I have so far Thanks for all the help, hombre!

That software looks very interesting and I'll certainly check it out. But unfortunately I work in an environment that prohibits electronic devices (such as a TI calc or a thumb drive) as well as internet access. So there is no way to run this software where I really need it. Thus my need to squeeze all the power out of calc.exe that I can

Intel says that 1.3v is within the chip's tolerance so I'll give that a shot. The mobo is an Asus P6T Deluxe V2. The BIOS is not the most recent, but I have reviewed the changelogs and there is no reason to upgrade.

I've never been a numbers guy but am trying to get proficient at using calc.exe to do number conversions. A "quick reference" sheet would be ideal but I can't find one and am getting skeptical that one exists. Is there some source (tutorial, .chm, cheat sheet) that will help me perform operations such as: -257 decimal to hex big endian -257 decimal to hex little endian -23 hex little endian to binary floating point little endian (lots of conversions there) Convert the 32bit little endian hex value 12 3F 2B A7 into both signed and unsigned decimal For example, a 16bit signed hex value (FF F6) (which happens to be negative) to a decimal: Scientific mode Input FFF6 in Hex mode with a size of Word. Perform Two's Complement: ...Click Not to invert the binary values. ...Add 1. ...Click Equals. Switch from Hex to Decimal mode. Remember that the number displayed (10) is actually negative (-10) due to the negative signed bit from the original hex value.

I'm trying to find some handy, printable "quick reference" sheets to help me: 1. Convert C to ASM (intel format) 2. Convert ASM to C 3. Trace ASM code onto a stack diagram I'd like this handy reference to have details such as: What does an 'if' statement look like in ASM? On the stack? What does loops look like in ASM? On the stack? What happens on the stack during a call? (Pushes ESP-4, then...) What happens on the stack during a pop? Stuff like that. I possess the knowledge but am a bit slow at this stuff. A quick reference would help me a lot!

Could certain BIOS settings perhaps change this behavior? VT, perhaps?

CPU voltage is fine at 1.21v (I don't overclock). No infrared device, but HWMon reports idle temps around 41C per core. The crash happens from an idle state, so heat does not appear to be an issue. Memtest86+ reports that the 3GB of RAM is all fine. Please help me fix this without buying a new CPU

We have a winner! Or a loser, is more like it Prime95's default stress test ("Blend") tests all 8 of the Core i7's logical cores and almost instantly reboots the machine. The other two modes (Small and Large FFTs) do not crash the machine, or at least not when run for a few moments. Local machine temperature monitoring does indicate that it is a heat issue. I've never encountered a problem like this one. What does it mean, exactly? What can be done to remedy it?

CoffeeFiend, I'll definitely take all of your advice into account when building my homebrew NAS. But I still intend to buy an appliance as well...just to spite you! Though I think I'll go with FreeNAS over OpenFiler as it seems to be a more active project. Price matters, of course, but I'm willing to spend enough to get a quality appliance. Here is a a Newegg link with some of the boxes I am currently considering. Zenskas, do you have any experience with your ReadyNAS that helps me decide based on the features in my first post?

I have an nLited XP SP3 machine that runs rock steady almost all the time. The only time it crashes is when playing Flash content, and even then only occasionally. Flash is the key component of the crashing. It doesn't matter if I use IE, FF3, or Chrome to invoke the Flash player. I've tried Flash versions 9 and 10 (using Adobe's uninstall utility) with no change in results. Unfortunately the crash goes straight into a reboot. No BSOD is given and no events are logged. So I'm having trouble nailing down the exact issue. Not sure if my video drivers could be involved in this, but I'm running a GeForce 7600 GS with nVidia's current drivers. Any ideas on what is causing this? Or how I can get some detailed crash information to diagnose the issue?

They can still sniff your outbound UA string. And they can also get a good idea by what sites you visit or programs you run. Visit MSFN and Google for "Vista" a lot? Run certain applications or games that use known ports and are OS-unique? Yeah. They can figure it out if they want to do so.

I had the same reaction but was too baffled to ask for clarification. Plus, his original post had a link in it. So I suspect he is here to spam...but he edited the link out.

Thanks, but this thread is about 2yrs old now I'm using Callcentric these days and they are great!

I'd like to buy a NAS appliance but need some help choosing one from people with NAS experience. Right now I am evaluating vendors to see which company I like in general. Then I'll pick a device from that vendor. General features I would like: Hackable - runs on some fairly generic Linux distribution and is open to addons/customization. Active user community - lots of support in userland. Addons, wiki, forums, etc. Hardware generic/robust enough to run and serve other applications. Ability to telnet/SSH into the machine and gain root. Not required, but would be nice: an optional, alternative firmware built by users. So far it looks like QNAP or Netgear ReadyNAS might be what I'm looking for. But Synology, Thecus and Buffalo are interesting to me, as well. Can you please provide recommendations based on real-world experience? For those who would recommend FreeNAS: I will be building a FreeNAS box. I also want an appliance.

Haha, the 'turn' is genius

Perhaps it could use some NOMNOMNOM?

"But It's Not Google."

Thanks for the feedback. I'll add that app to my list

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I hope you get an answer as I'd like to see how that can be done.

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