Author: Garry Evans
Date: 02:31:42 12/11/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 04:12:24, Andrew Dados wrote: >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? My brain tells me if the only change i made >>to my computer is the new chip, then it is logical to assume the chip is the >>problem? I had absolutely no problems running chess programs with my old athlon >>550, with no error messages ever!! Is it possible that the technician simply >>does not want to admitt he made an error in the installation? One would think if >>you pay good money for a piece of hardware the technician would have the decency >>to atleast fix the problem if something goes wrong? But such is the state of >>customer service in 2001 America. It does not matter if I use a windows chess >>program or a Dos program, my system will crash in 15 min with various error >>message such as with fritz6 "Fritz6 has caused an error in mfc2dll fritz6 will >>now close, if you continue to experence problems try restarting your computer". >>or in the Case of Rebel "An exception oe has occured at 0028:cool fab in vxd--- >>This was called from 0028:cool2b33 in VXD It may be possible to continue >>naturally". Or with schedder the error message will read Comment has caused an >>error in comment.exe comment will now close. >>I am currently using Windows Me, I have reinstalled all my programs just to have >>the problem repeat itself. Could someone Please help with any suggestions >>whatever. I got a few responses before but unfortunately did not save the >>information. > >My suggestion is that you have too slow memory for current processor. Computer >when idling (and it does nothing 99% of the time) does not need to access memory >frequently, so errors don't show up. Chess programs are very demanding on >processor and memory subsystems, so errors show up when a program is 'thinking'. > >-Andrew- Hmm interesting suggestion, at the moment i have SDram pc100
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