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Subject: Re: Computer crashes while analyzing games overnight

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 12:26:01 06/09/05

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On June 09, 2005 at 03:32:47, Eran Karu wrote:

>Sometimes my computer crashes apparently for no reason while either Shredder 9
>UCI or Fritz 8 analyzes my games overnight.
>
>Does it happen to your computers? Is it a common problem?
>
>What causes a computer to crash during analyzing chess games? What are solutions
>please?

Make sure, you have not overclocked your computer. Chess engines are good, to
trigger problems in case of overclocking. One computer I owned, did
unfortunately crash with longer engine matches or analysis. About once a week or
so. It was a K6-2 500 MHZ. I set it up to only use 466 MHz ("under-clocking"),
and it never crashed again. That computer even worked well with overclocking to
533 MHZ (IIRC). But then, not for a week, but only for a day.

Regards,
Dieter



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