Author: William Penn
Date: 14:04:13 12/27/04
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On December 27, 2004 at 16:30:54, Stephen Ham wrote: >Dear readers, > >Last Thursday, I was setting up an engine tournament when I got error mesages >similar to what James Walker posted at the bottom of this page. Here it is >again: > >CHESSPROGRAM8 caused a general protection fault >in module MSVCRT.DLL at 016f:7800f928. >Registers: >EAX=02c72910 CS=016f EIP=7800f928 EFLGS=00010282 >EBX=07ccff88 SS=0177 ESP=07bd0060 EBP=07bd007c >ECX=0000000a DS=0177 ESI=c0000005 FS=418f >EDX=00000000 ES=0177 EDI=780341e0 GS=0000 >Bytes at CS:EIP: >39 32 57 8b c2 74 11 8d 3c 49 8d 3c ba 83 c0 0c >Stack dump: >02c72910 7800f7f4 c0000005 00000000 00000000 07ccff88 c0000005 07ccff98 7800becf >c0000005 07bd00a8 7800f5b5 07bd00b0 00000000 07bd00b0 07bd0180 > >CHESSPROGRAM8 caused an invalid page fault in >module MFC42.DLL at 016f:5f401351. >Registers: >EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=5f401351 EFLGS=00010246 >EBX=5f4d0008 SS=0177 ESP=0325faa4 EBP=0325fad8 >ECX=00000000 DS=0177 ESI=02c3ff00 FS=31cf >EDX=00000003 ES=0177 EDI=01392770 GS=11f6 >Bytes at CS:EIP: >8b 71 04 85 f6 57 74 26 8b 7c 24 0c 33 d2 8b c7 >Stack dump: >02c3ff00 5f405c16 0000092c 01392770 5f4d0008 013926a4 5f477754 00000001 013926a4 >013926a4 0325fe28 5f492c76 00000000 0325fafc 5f4064d0 013927c0 > >But I don't even have Junior 9; I was using Shredder 8, which I've had for a >long time. These mesages then automatically triggered emails to ChessBase. I've >NEVER seen this before. Within an hour or so, my computer completely locked up. >I rebooted, and then found that the machine wouldn't power off. So I held the >power button down until it turned off. Unfortunately, the machine won't boot up >now. It claims some BIOS error and also claims there's something in my A-drive. >My A-drive is empty. > >The result: I may need to by a replacement computer because I can't get my >computer to operate. I can't even get a proper boot up, so I can try >re-istalling Windows. > >Does this sound to be in any way related to my error messages while in Shredder >8? I think they're only coincidental. I suspect that I was given a trojan, or a >worm of some sort via e-mails from correspondence chess opponents. Yet it's odd >that Junior 9 users are getting error messages similar to what I saw while in >S8. > >Any thoughts? > >All the very best, >Stephen I've had error messages like those in the past with the original GUI that came with Shredder 8, but not with the latest downloadable GUI (April 16 2004). I still got the crashes, but theose error messages from Windows were apparently blocked by a change in error handling in the CB code. In my case they were triggered by changing the hash size. I eventually learned to switch to a different engine such as Fritz 5.32 before changing hash size, then back to Shredder 8, which avoided it. They were fatal errors, i.e. closed down the GUI automatically. I also recall one instance of a crash with the CB GUI and Shredder 8 which caused some kind of damage to my op system. I can't remember the details, but it wasn't as extreme as you've experienced. My usual procedure, which has always worked for me in such cases, is to run System Restore on my XP op system, which always fixed such problems after the fact. Now I've recently installed a new hard drive and haven't had such problems again (yet). I think that would be my advice, considering that hard drives are getting very cheap. Put in a new hard drive and install your op system on it. Then you can connect your old "crashed" hard drive as a slave to possibly recover data from it. That's often a lot easier than trying to figure out and fix whatever caused the problem. WP
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