Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:40:47 03/03/03
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On March 03, 2003 at 10:04:51, Jouni Uski wrote: >I finally bought new P4 2,4Ghz PC. I installed Windows98 SE and Fritz8. I tried >to run engine-engine matches, but after one hour or similar they always stop. >And I get different kind of error messages: invalid page fault, error in >chessprogram8, error in user.exe, error in mfcxx.dll. AAAARGH! Is PC broken? > >Definitely no overclockin but out of box PC. Is win98 may be too slow for >2,4Ghz? Or what? >Any ideas? I cannot say about other programs, because I only run Fritz. >Problem happens with native engines so this isn't UCI.dll problem. Also in >running test suites it sometimes stops. > >Jouni Most likely you have a hardware problem. Specifically, an overheating problem that could be the result of a poorly installed heatsink, or a fan that should be directing air over the heatsink but is not. But that would be my best guess since it takes a while to fail, and chess programs will definitely ramp up the core cpu temp.
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