Author: Anatoli
Date: 02:20:32 08/15/99
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On August 15, 1999 at 02:39:10, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 First, thanks Ed for your answer. No, I run Windows 95. I tried to follow your advise but nothing changed. But why did I get two wins in the engine tournament ?! Is it a problem with my PC ? Best wishes Anatoli
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