Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:39:10 08/14/99
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On August 14, 1999 at 18:53:12, Anatoli wrote: >Hi everybody ! >Last year I bought a nice box with a new Sierra Power Chess 98. After >instolation I couldn't start the program because it gave me a message that the >program was ARREADY running ! I reinstalled it hundreds of time and sometimes I >could started but in 99% I failed. I sent an e-mail to Sierra and I was very >lucky to get an answer. Of course, it was a problem with my PC, because I had >old drivers ! But I have just bought a new PC and the new drivers didn't exist >in nuture yet ! As it turned out very soon, thousands of people had the same or >very simmuler problem with that Power Chess and it was so buggy that Sierra >stopped to produse it. But I lost my 50 bucks. >Now I have Fritz 5.32, Junior 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.32 installed on my PC. Whenever >I want to check a crosstable of an engine tournament, the program crushes and >gives me a message : Hiarcs ( Fritz, Junior) caused an invalid page fault in >module "unknown" at 0000:00000020. >I have already sent this question before to our newsgroup and to Steve but >nobody could solve this puzzle. Do I have to change my drivers or somebody else >have the same problem ?! Is it another problem with my PC ? >But now I want to tell you want has happened just yesterday. I played an engine >tournament and also took part in it. It was a 5 min. blitz and I played just 5 >games with the top engines and lost all games without ant chances. Engines >played with each other all night and this morning I wanted to finish playing my >games. I opened the crosstable and found out that Hiarcs 7.32 took the first >place. But to my deepest surprise I found that I WON two games against Fritz 5 >and another engine !!! But I lost those games !!! And after those wrong results >Fritz 5 lost one point and enstead of taking the clear second place it ended on >the fourth one. Who can guarantee that the other results in the table are >correct ? And as usually , when I closed the crosstable the program crushed. >Something wrong with my drivers or this time with ChessBase products ? I'll be >very happy to get any answer and solution because these crushes are very >annoying for me. >Thanks >Anatoli If you are running Windows98 try to temporarily disable the soundcard (see configuration menu). There is a good chance the crashes will disappear. Ed Schroder
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