Author: Eran Karu
Date: 13:09:33 06/09/05
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On June 09, 2005 at 15:26:01, Dieter Buerssner 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?
>
>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
I see. An interesting idea.
My old mainboard is MS-6318 Micro ATX VA6 probably made by MSI Computer Corp. I
don't think it supports overclocking. However, it supports the DRAM Clock
chipset that supports synchronous and asynchronous mode between DIMM clock and
the host clock (default), 66MHz and 133MHz clocks respectively. So I don't know
if DIMM clock is underclocking, isn't it? My mainboard is optimized (of course
with the host clock selected) by default right now and my computer crashes very
rarely.
Thanks,
Eran Karu
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