Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:06:19 12/27/04
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On December 27, 2004 at 18:22:29, Stephen Ham wrote: >On December 27, 2004 at 17:04:13, William Penn wrote: > >>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 > >Thanks WP. You may indeed be correct that the S8 GUI caused my Windows XP to >crash. After all, I was setting up an engine tournament at the time, and that >changes the engine's hash size. But the odd thing is, I've had S8 and the other >engines for many months, and have run tournaments before, all without crashes. > >But now, I can't even boot up the computer to push the System Restore button! >Also, my hard-drive is only about 2-months old, since the previous hard-drive >crashed due to a hardware failure. > >All the best, >Stephen Another possible issue is that you had Virus that you were not aware of. At this point, possiblly least frustrating solution it to buy a new hard drive and re-install. Two hard drive crashes within 2 months is possible - but would be rare. I would make that you have the latest security patches, antivirus and firewall installed as well after re-installation. I would be leery of using the old drive unless you were sure it was abolutley virus free or re-formatted. Good Luck!
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