[quote="Prime95"]Keep your fingers crossed, the master database is on IBM drives. 40GB raid 1. Of course its backup weekly to avoid severe loss.[/quote]

Out of the four IBM drives I have owned, three died disturbingly early. And of those three, two were 40GB. So raid and frequent backups is probably a good idea. (Although the 40GB:s were already broken when I brought them home from the store, so maybe they had a bumpy ride before I got them.)

I have discovered that my system freeze up when running Prime95 is largely due to using SDRAM on my ECS K7S5A M/B.
I chose this particular M/B because it can use either SDRAM or DDRAM, and my thought was to save some money and re-use the SDRAM from my old system, big mistake!

It would appear that when made to work hard it cannot cope (a forum for troubleshooting the K&S5A is full of sad tales regarding memory and type), I just wish ECS had mentioned this eccentricity in their advert.
Today I purchased 512MB of DDRAM and Prime95 now runs.

My problems have transfered to the rest of my programs which run very very slowly when Prime95 is pumping, so I am off to the Software Forum for more help, see you there.

John

I did of course mean to say 'Hardware Forum' :surprised:ops:

John