Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 10:14:06 12/13/99
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On December 13, 1999 at 12:34:43, paul bedrey wrote: >On December 13, 1999 at 10:57:55, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >>On December 13, 1999 at 09:16:28, paul bedrey wrote: >> >>>On December 13, 1999 at 07:40:36, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >>> >>>>> This is nothing against Chessbase but there obviously >>>>>is a incompatability between AMD processors, ATI graphics cards and Chessbase >>>>>software. >>>> >>>>This is a problem of the ATI-card. AMDs processors are just fine, especially for >>>>chess. >>> >>> > >>I have had Chessbase Products running on PCs with different AMD processors, and >>_NEVER_ had a problem. I did have problems (not with Chess-progs though) with >>ATI cards. >>What exactly does happen? Does it crash? Or display errors? > > >That's the problem. It has done all of the following(listed by frequency) > >1. Invalid Page fault(program performed Illegal Operations) >2. Fritz freezes in the middle of a move. >3. The Blue Screen of death(computer shuts down completely) > >For a while I did have some success with turning off virtual memory(I have >192meg of RAM). I was able to play several games with Fritz but after a couple >of weeks the problems started all over again. The major difference was I just >would be booted back to Windows. When I first got the computer I got the Blue >Screen so many times that I eventually was forced to reformat the drive and load >Windows again(4 times). > >Funny though Winboard runs fairly well. Occasionally I'll get the message >Illegal Operations but I just save the game and restart Winboard and reload the >game and start playing again. > >P.S. The only time Fritz runs without blowing up is if I run the Fritzmark test. >As you know Fritz just calculates and does not move the pieces that is why I >suspect the ATI Rage Pro Graphics card. This could be a hardware problem as well. Are you sure your processor isn't getting too hot? Exactly what CPU do you have?
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