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Subject: Request : Hardware related- Problem solved!

Author: Martin Grabriel

Date: 20:15:12 12/16/99

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Hi
Can you teach me how to change the CAS Latency or speed? I am trying to find out
why sometimes my AMD k6-2/400 system (with 128 MB Ram) crash when I play in
CHess.net. I suspect it is faulty Ram but please share with me how you adjust
those things you adjusted. Thanks in advance



On December 16, 1999 at 20:25:27, Rafael Vasquez wrote:

>On December 16, 1999 at 17:05:13, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>Ed,
>
>Was a memory related problem. I change the CAS latency from 2 to 3 and the speed
>from "Turbo" to "Fast" and now the problem is not happening.
>I will do the test (just in case) to ensure that the settings are optimal.
>With 256 of RAM I was afraid of having "bad memory".
>
>Regards, Rafael
>
>>Looks like your PC is having some problems. Overheated, dust,
>>broken RAM who can tell. Here is a system to test your PC.
>>
>>Download the following EPD file:
>>
>>www.rebel.nl/rg4.epd
>>
>>Run Rebel Century using "analyze EPD" (menu EXTRA)
>>
>>When finished the NPS counter for every position (see the logfile
>>"rg4.txt") should always be 100% the same. If there are differences
>>(no matter how small) consider your PC as (very) suspect if not
>>broken.
>>
>>The system is simple: "rg4.epd" is nothing more than 500 x running
>>the same position (on 10 ply) over and over. You can cancel the
>>process any time (hitting ESC) and then check the created logfile
>>"rg4.txt".
>>
>>Ed



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