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Subject: Re: Urgent help needed with my new PC!

Author: Brian Kostick

Date: 13:45:07 03/03/03

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On March 03, 2003 at 10:59:26, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On March 03, 2003 at 10:47:32, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>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 pc nowadays come with preinstalled Windows XP Home or Proffesional. But I
>>do remember Fritz 7 having problems with Windows98 SE. There is a patch
>>available somewhere, but I can't rememberd where to get it from.
>
>
>
>PS: Sorry I confused the Windows version, I remembered Windows ME having
>problems with Fritz 6, but not Windows98 SE. The problem with Windows ME was
>simple to solve by replacing the SHLWAPI.DLL in Fritz or chessbase/engines
>directory with the most current SHLWAPI.DLL either in Windows ME or the one that
>came with Fritz or Chessbase Engines.
>
>Pichard.


Pichard,

  Yes I too remember. I think there were 5 files that could be dispensed with.
Some of which started with 'mfc' and I think shlwapi.dll was one also. I would
have to look in the Fritz 8 folder to see if that practice continues. (Jouni,
you might have a peek in there and try appending a .bac extention to such files
if they are present).

Regards,
BK



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