Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 06:35:58 07/13/99
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On July 12, 1999 at 10:28:19, paul bedrey wrote: >I'm in the process of transfering my chessbase programs from my old pc to my new >one and have received the above message no matter whether I play Hiarcs Fritz or >Junior. >My machine is an IBM Aptiva >Processor = Amd k6 475 megahertz with 64 megs of Ram >I have Windows 98 with Lotus Smartsuite. >I suspect it is a problem with memory. Usually I'll play 9-10 moves in a program >and either the machine locks up or gives me a message " this program has >performed an illegal operation", and boots be back out to Windows. >I've tried decreasing hash table size to 16 megs and find that it now craps out >at move 20. > > Has anybody had this problem? Do I need to get more memory or uninstall >Lotus smartsuite? Thanks in advance for your help. Since nobody posted 'simplest' advice, I'll shoot.. It is likely that your memory is too slow for your bios settings/CPU speed combo. Try decreasing dram timings in bios and see if it works. Other programs can be unaffected because they usually don't access memory like crazy (the way chess program do). -Andrew-
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