Author: Eran Karu
Date: 12:31:48 06/09/05
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On June 09, 2005 at 09:12:31, Aaron Gordon wrote: >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? >> >>Thanks, >>Eran Karu >> >>P.S. >>FYI: >>Pentium III 1000 >>256 MB RAM >>128 MB hashtable >>All permanent residents are removed from the taskbar >>Windows 2000 Pro SP4 > >Few things you can try that won't cost anything. First of all, open the side and >look at the heatsink/fan. Do you see a lot of dust on it? If so, clean it all >out of course. If you don't feel like removing the heatsink to do this a can of >air and some tweezers should suffice. If all is well there, download Prime95 at: >ftp://www.mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2412.zip Yes, I clean it once a year. > >Once you uncompress and run Prime95.exe, click "Just stress testing", then click >the options tab, click "torture test", select "in-place large FFTs". Let that >run for at least an hour.. see if you get any errors. If you do, this means the >CPU or ram could be overheated or are going bad. Another possible but remote >cause is the power supply is giving out and dropping the voltage on the +5 rail, >sagging it to near 4v will cause instabilities as you are describing. > >Also make a boot disk or CD with Memtest86+ v1.55, boot off of that and let it >run until all of your memory is completely tested. If you get any errors you >probably have bad ram, but an unstable CPU can also cause this.. so first make >sure your voltages in the bios are normal (+3.3 around 3.3v, +5v close to 5v, >etc) and your CPU is cooled sufficiently. If you still get errors then test your >ram 1 stick at a time to isolate the bad one. > >Download Memtest86+ @ http://www.memtest.org/ I will try testing both with Prime95 and Memtest86+ utilities. Thanks for your help. Eran Karu
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