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Subject: Re: Chessmaster8000 won't start :( Anyone help me here?

Author: jonas cohonas

Date: 10:01:36 02/02/01

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On February 02, 2001 at 06:19:12, Lin Harper wrote:

>  Last week I bought a copy of Chessmaster8000 and installed it on my
>  older machine, a Cyrix P150. It would'nt start. I put the CD in the drive
>  and clicked on "Run", then the CM8000 startup graphic and an empty window
>  appeared, along with an hour glass, and the computer froze. The hour glass
>  could still be moved with the mouse.
>    It happened that I was upgrading this week, so I thought I would'nt
>  worry about it, the new machine would run it, no problems.
>    The new machine is a Pentium 4, 1.3 gHz, 128 mb RD Ram. A powerful
>  unit. I installed CM8K and when I tried to run it, exactly the same
>  thing happened. Has anyone else had the same, or similar problem?
>    If so, what can I do about it? Any help would be appreciated.
>    I'm wondering if I got a bad disk.

I had the same exact problem with CM8 when i got it and it turned out that
when i upgraded my cpu, (being the chessnerd i am) i had not intalled the
soundcard, and CM8 will not run without a soundcard, not even when it is in
the cpu uninstalled, so maby you should check into that :-)

Regards
Jonas



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