Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:19:42 02/28/00
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On February 28, 2000 at 19:00:44, Laurence Chen wrote: >On February 28, 2000 at 18:33:14, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>I think I did something wrong... because I haven't seen posts from other people >>having problems with DJ6. I did a custom install the first time and when the >>choice for rebooting came, I selected "no", and tried to run the program anyway, >>just because I am that kind of guy. <grin> As I was warned, it didn't work, so >>I rebooted, but I was surprised that it still didn't work. Anwyay, I >>uninstalled it, then re-installed it, selecting standard the second time around, >>and this time I allowed the reboot. :) >> >>When I try to run the program, I see a small picture of a red chess king, which >>then changes to yellow, and then to green. Next comes an error popup: "Engine: >>unKnown error 1". The interface loads, and I can play vs. the opening book, but >>when it's time for the engine to start crunching the program stalls. I can try >>doing a few things, but eventually the application craters. >> >>Any suggestions? I'm running NT 4.0 Server on a dual PII-266, 128Mb RAM. The >>account used to install the program does have administrator access. Just in >>case it's important, on my computer NT's home dir is F:\WINNT; I don't actually >>have a C: drive. While I was trying to get things to work, the DJ6 CD-ROM was >>in my J: drive, which is also the drive I installed the program from. >> >>Dave >I've never had trouble installing Deep Junior in my NT system. I'm using NT >Server with SP5. I'd suggest you to upgrade your service pack to 5, also >there's a possibility that you may have corrupt so files in your first >installation. Should had rebooted when it told you to do it. The only >suggestion I can give is to de-install the program, then delete the folder Deep >Junior which was created in the Chessbase folder, and the also any DJ entries >which was made to the ChssBase.INI file in the \Winnt folder. Then try >installing again and make sure you reboot the computer before using the program. >Laurence I'm already running SP6. Forgot to mention that the first time around. :( I did the other stuff you mentioned. Incidentally, the entire content of chssbase.ini is currently: [Deep Junior] Path=f:\Program Files\ChessBase\Deep Junior Dave
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