Author: John Merlino
Date: 20:01:03 10/08/03
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On October 08, 2003 at 19:36:48, Peter Collins wrote: >I have never before encountered this problem: > >after installing August 2003? (the latest) drivers on a new system (that Barton >XP2800 I referred to earlier), running Fritz 8 at the maximum allowable setting >(1228MB RAM of 1.5GB) during infinite analysis, the video display freezes after >variously 10 to 100 hours. > >I've noticed that so far, abstaining from the powersaver and/or screen-saver >programs (using XP PRO OS) prevents freezing... > >Funny thing happens during a freeze sometimes: the small clock on the >engine/evaluation panel will go nuts, i.e. 60x to 600x faster... also, vertical >alternating stripes of gold and black are typically seen during the freeze. > >I've had other systems where Fritz 8 runs without this problem. > >Anyone else experience this, and is the lowering of the ram setting slightly a >useful or logical suggestion? > >I recall the driver is v.45.23, I use Samsung RAM, and an NEC monitor... > >Thanks in advance for any feedback. This suspiciously sounds to me like the video card (and/or CPU) is overheating. I had similar random visual wackiness, and that's what it turned out to be. You might check the fan(s) and ventilation in the system. jm
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