Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 07:19:12 12/28/04
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On December 27, 2004 at 19:06:19, Mike Byrne wrote: >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! Hi Mike, It's possible that I had a virus, although my McAffee system is kept current and I "cleaned" my computer 1-day before the crash. There were no viruses found then either. The only thing found was 4-bits of spyware, which I deleted. All the best, Steve
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