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Subject: Thanks, can I test the suggestion? (I have no video card)

Author: Stephen A. Boak

Date: 19:02:40 02/15/01

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On February 15, 2001 at 15:29:19, David G. Wilkie wrote:

>I have seen this problem on machines running programs other than Chessmaster.
>It is normally seen with graphics intensive programs, and generally has
>indicated that you've reached your resource limits.  Shutting down other
>programs (there are often many running in the background, some of which you may
>not even be aware of) most often solves the problem.

I didn't have (intentionally) other programs working in the background, but
TaskInfo shows many processes being run and some of those are started
automatically by Windows, I guess.

Oh, there is a printer process running to handle my NEC Laser printer--that
causes a small status window to be maintained in the background (on my desktop
screen).

As far as resource limits--my CPU is 500Mhz AMD K6-2, but I have no video card
installed (only using native motherboard and installed 256KB RAM resources?),
although there is a place for one I believe (I simply chose not to buy one when
I had the system put together for me).  Seems to work fine usually, but ...
could this be such a resource limiting factor?

Any way to test your conjecture?   What might be the ultimate solution?

Thanks,
--Steve



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