Author: Brian Kostick
Date: 04:50:23 04/12/04
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On April 12, 2004 at 02:14:41, Randy Adams wrote: >When I am in Fritz 8, go to new game and set up position, my computer shuts >down...no error messages, anything,..just shuts down. Just started several days >ago...never a problem before. I can restart it immediately with no problem. >Running W98se, AMD 1.0 GHz, 256 RAM, Nvidia FX5600 256 ram. Have been >researching over the web, and have cut back on hardware acceleration, cleaned >my fans and heatsinks, but still can reproduce the problem. Possibly a hardware >prob, though has only happened so far in Fritz. About a month ago, I updated my >graphics card (to above)...but only 2 days of problems. Realize this is a bit >off-topic, but appreciate any suggestions.... >(Runs FS 2004 with no problems) >thanks much, >Randy A >Taiwan I will say that Fritz GUI has caused may people trouble in the past. It is very slow to exit for me after running on WinXP. Several others decided to turn off system restore to make it run (run at all I believe). I haven't heard much about this lately but I do think some of their code is leaking or at least not correct. While I still ran Win98se Fritz GUI would scramble the left side of the Start menu (the color bar), the only program that ever did that too I might add. BK
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