Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 01:31:16 12/11/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 03:56:05, Garry Evans wrote: >I'm pissed off! Haven't been able to resolve my problem with my chess programs >crashing!! I took my computer back to the technician who installed the Chip and >he insists that it is a sofware problem. This just does not make sense to my >limited computer knowledge, the only change I have had was going from an athlon >550 to a slotA athlon850. I absolutely get no error messages when running other >programs. The only time I get a error message is when I allow my chess programs >to think on a problem or when playing a game. The error will not come up if I do >not actually make the engine work? <SNIP> >Could someone Please help with any suggestions >whatever. I got a few responses before but unfortunately did not save the >information. My suggestion is to check the fan/heatsink on your new CPU. It could be working badly (or not at all) and your processor can be overheating, which will cause all sorts of problems like you describe. I had almost the exact same problem a while ago when my CPU fan failed - it only caused problems when I was using 100% of the CPU for a while, and only chess-programs stress the machine so much. This sounds very much like what you're experiencing.
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