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Subject: Hardware related- Problem solved!

Author: Rafael Vasquez

Date: 17:25:27 12/16/99

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On December 16, 1999 at 17:05:13, Ed Schröder wrote:

Ed,

Was a memory related problem. I change the CAS latency from 2 to 3 and the speed
from "Turbo" to "Fast" and now the problem is not happening.
I will do the test (just in case) to ensure that the settings are optimal.
With 256 of RAM I was afraid of having "bad memory".

Regards, Rafael

>Looks like your PC is having some problems. Overheated, dust,
>broken RAM who can tell. Here is a system to test your PC.
>
>Download the following EPD file:
>
>www.rebel.nl/rg4.epd
>
>Run Rebel Century using "analyze EPD" (menu EXTRA)
>
>When finished the NPS counter for every position (see the logfile
>"rg4.txt") should always be 100% the same. If there are differences
>(no matter how small) consider your PC as (very) suspect if not
>broken.
>
>The system is simple: "rg4.epd" is nothing more than 500 x running
>the same position (on 10 ply) over and over. You can cancel the
>process any time (hitting ESC) and then check the created logfile
>"rg4.txt".
>
>Ed



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