Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 11:30:15 08/02/98
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On July 31, 1998 at 10:35:25, Paul Massie wrote: >On July 31, 1998 at 09:53:45, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>On July 31, 1998 at 07:25:07, Komputer Korner wrote: >> >>>On July 30, 1998 at 23:38:50, Torstein Hall wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>On July 30, 1998 at 15:42:41, Paul Massie wrote: >>>> >>>>>Here's another possibility - Since CB7 uses an internet connection and you >>>>>mentioned it crashed while downloading, perhaps the problem lies not in the base >>>>>NT system, but in the IE addon files. I have had problems in the past >>>>>installing software that depends on IE components. Since Internet Explorer has >>>>>changed several times since NT 4.0 SP3 was released, it is sometimes necessary >>>>>to download the latest version of IE from the Microsoft Web site and install it. >>>>>It is critical to ensure that the IE files in the system are synchronized >>>>>reasonably well with the similar files in the application. >>>> >>>>I have the same experience when installing Win CE services on a NT machine! >>>>MS recomended to remove IE, then install, then reinstall SP 3 and at last >>>>reinstall IE 4.0 >>>>Quite a process to install progs. on the NT beast. :) >>>> >>>>Torstein >>>>> >>>>>On July 30, 1998 at 13:04:29, Torstein Hall wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On July 30, 1998 at 09:59:38, Komputer Korner wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>< BIG SNIP > >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I just loaded the production version of CB 7 on my WIN NT 4 SP3 machine and >>>>>>>clicked on the CB7i icon and went to the menu to get CB7 upgrade from ChessBase >>>>>>>site and as it was downloading a file it crashed. It does this repeatedly. I >>>>>>>sent the crash log file to Matthias at ChessBase and his reply was to reinstall >>>>>>>WIN NT 4. I am NOT going to reinstall my operating system just because one >>>>>>>program crashes on it. All my other windows chess programs and almost all the >>>>>>>DOS ones run fine on my WIN NT system, so the fault must lie with CB 7. I notice >>>>>>>that there was a separate version for CB 6 for WIN NT and wonder why there isn't >>>>>>>one for CB 7. I like CB 7 a lot but is there anyone else who is running WIN NT 4 >>>>>>>with CB 7? >>>>>>>-- >>>>>>>Komputer Korner >>>>>> >>>>>>I'm not running CB 7 on a NT machine, but I have installed some software on some >>>>>>NT monsters and I have several times had to reinstall service pack 3 after >>>>>>installing any software that used communication. Perhaps you should try that. >>>>>> >>>>>>Torstein >>> >>> >>>This just goes to show that a separate CB 7 version should have been made for >>>WIN NT 4. The user shouldn't have to do all this just because of 1 program. >>>-- >>>Komputer Korner >> >>I belive this is a NT 4.0 problem, not a Chessbase 7.0 problem! To me it looks >>like NT do not protect its critical files! >> >>Torstein > >I agree with that assessment. One of the problems with NT is that it has been >relatively stable while IE has been moving rapidly. Service Pack 3 has now been >out for something like 10 months. In that time IE has made several major >changes. Service Pack 4 is now testing and should be available sometime soon >(maybe a couple of months) and that may bring them back into sync. If your NT >was installed a few months ago it will probably need to be updated with the >latest IE. One of the possible reasons this could affect CB 7 and not other >programs is that most programs don't use the internet to do updates, but CB 7 >does. I suspect that updating may use some of the IE components. If so, the >Chessbase people probably used the latest versions of those components, and they >may not play happily with older IE components on the system. I reinstalled SP3 for WIN NT 4. I reinstalled IE 4.01 SP1. I reinstalled CB 7 either accepting the replace IE4 components or on other reinstalls of CB 7 I prevented it from accepting IE 4 components. I did the above in every order imaginable. I still can't get the Online upgrade to work with WIN NT 4. It works well with WIN 95, but I have a dual boot setup and this may somehow be causing the problem. What I end up is 1) when I dial up from CB7 I get a busy signal. 2) When I dial up first and then boot CB 7 to go to the online upgrade, it starts dowmloading a file and then it crashes on cb7uninfo.ini. I can't get the Register to ChessBase feature to work either. As I said no problems with CB 7 and Win 95 but CB 7 and online upgrade in Win NT 4 are a no go for me. The rest of the CB 7 program seems to work well in WIN NT 4 though. -- Komputer Korner
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