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Originally Posted by James Alan
I just tried Prime95. Thanks for the suggestion, Kwag.
I installed and ran the program. It closed down by itself within two minutes of testing. I restarted and tried to test again. I get this:
ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT
Possible hardware failure
This may very well be the same problem causing my encodes to mess up. Unfortunately, Prime95 doesn't give any details as to WHAT hardware is possibly failing.
At least I now know SOMETHING is wrong for sure.
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The hardware failure is most likely memory related. You can choose different stress tests with the latest Prime95 version, maybe those would help in determining the problem area.
One good memory tester is Memtest86. Find it at
http://www.memtest86.com/ . That one will surely tell you if it's the memory causing the problems.