Author: Howard Exner
Date: 22:50:50 12/03/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 01:09:07, Martin Grabriel wrote: >On December 04, 2000 at 00:32:35, Garry Evans wrote: > > >> No it is not overclocked. My motherboard does not allow overclocking. What's >>weird is that everythingelse is working fine except my chess programs!!! > > >Yes, it's weird that problem only resides with chess programs. One reason could >be faulty rams and chess programs really uses a high % of those rams and reach >the faulty parts. >maybe. This was my first hunch also. A good way to test a computer's ram is to run stress tests (programs that one can download from various sites) or chess programs which do cpu and ram intensive work as Martin explained. If you are familiar with entering the bios and altering settings, try setting the various ram options to there slowest timings then test run your chess programs. Default settings for ram are usually on the low end but they can be set to run at less efficiency. For example use cas3 not cas2, or pc100 timings not pc133, and the slowest read/write timings. These should be explained in your motherboard manual. If the programs start working then in small increments start enhancing the ram timings. If the programs still crash you might want to insert better ram (pc133 cas2).All the better if you can explain your dilema to a retailer who is willing to let you return the ram if it does not solve the problem. To reduce the windows factor try Rebel Century as the test program. It relys less on the windows environment.
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