Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Problem with all my chess programs!

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 20:32:54 12/03/00

Go up one level in this thread


On December 03, 2000 at 23:02:52, Garry Evans wrote:

>
>I just upgraded to a athlon 850. Fortunately I did not have to get a new
>motherboard only the chip. Suddenly I am getting error messages with all of my
>programs. For instance when i run Fritz, the program crashes after a few
>minutes. I get a message which reads "Fritz6 has caused an error in MFC42dll
>fritz6 will now close. If you continue to experence problems try restarting your
>computer".....   Unfortunately when i heed the computers advice and restart the
>problem just starts all over again. Rebel Century does the same thing and
>schredder gives me a message which says  "comment has caused an error in
>comment.exe comment will now close, if you continue experienceing problems
>restart your computer.
>
>
>Does anyone have any ideal what the problem is?? When I had the Athlon 550 I had
>none of these problems

Is it a socket or slot version? What are you doing to keep the chip cool? You
need to have a good cpu fan and install it properly with thermal grease. Another
possible problem is athlons have some sensitivity to the power supply.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.