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Subject: Re: Fritz5.16 makes computer crash

Author: Robert Ericsson

Date: 08:29:20 12/22/98

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On December 22, 1998 at 08:56:04, Harald Faber wrote:

>On December 22, 1998 at 08:29:59, Robert Ericsson wrote:
>
>>>>A friend of mine installed Fritz5.16 on a laptop computer. Soon afterwards he
>>>>had a harddisk failure and had to reboot his entire PC.
>>>
>>>>I myself has installed Fritz5.16 on my PC. Yesterday I played some games with
>>>>Fritz and then turned my PC off. Some ten minutes later - when trying to restart
>>>>my PC - I get hard disk failure and was told to reboot my PC.
>>>
>>>Did you shutdown Win95/98? Or just turned the power off?
>>
>>I exit Fritz5.16 and then shut down win95 and my computer (I didn't reset my PC
>>if that was your question!?) properly, that is turned the power off.
>>Robert
>
>That was my question. But as far as I haven't heard nor read about such a probem
>I guess you have another problem not Fritz. There are still many reasons for
>that left. Look at harddisk defragment status, scandisk, virus...

Have run Dr Solomon and Scandisk. No problems their.

Still bugs me that two persons have had trouble with hard disk failure on two
separate PC:s after installing Fritz5.16.

I'd better make a back-up of all my game files before it is to late ;-)

Robert



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