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Subject: Re: Millennium Package and NT

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 06:54:17 12/13/99

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On December 07, 1999 at 03:25:12, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:

>On December 06, 1999 at 14:42:54, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>
>>On December 06, 1999 at 13:46:18, Laurence Chen wrote:
>>
>>>On December 06, 1999 at 12:50:01, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have recently received the Millennium upgrade and everything is fine with
>>>>Shredder 4.  However, ChessGenius does not start.  It brings up a window that
>>>>essentially is framed out but nothing is displayed in the frames except what's
>>>>currently on the Desktop.  The Nsetup.exe for Nimzo 2000 won't run at all either
>>>>by clicking on it or bringing up a DOS window and typing in the command.
>>>>
>>>>I'm running NT4 SP3 with 1024x768 resolution on a Micron Pentium Pro.  Has
>>>>anybody experienced similar problems?  I haven't contacted Computerchess yet but
>>>> plan on doing so later this week.
>>>>
>>>>Steve
>>>Try upgrading to NT SP5, don't use NT SP6, it has too many bugs.
>>
>>I will be doing that shortly.  I have requested SP5 because, as you mentioned,
>>SP6 did have a problem and there is an SP6a available already.
>>
>>I don't think the application of the SP will change anything though as
>>ChessGenius and Nimzo are really DOS programs and I have consistently had
>>problems with running anything that is DOS based on my machine.
>>
>>Thanks for the response and I'll let you know if it does work.
>>
>>Steve
>
>Shredder4, Nimzo2000 and Genius 6.5 are all Win32 applications, not DOS
>programs. On my machine with NT and SP4 everything works fine.
>
>Stefan

I've upgraded WinNT to SP5, no errors, and still neither Nimzo nor ChessGenius
will run.  The Nsetup program just blinks when it is clicked.  Any clues as to
what may be causing the problem?

Thanks.

Steve Coladonato



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