WinXP, 512 MB RAM, 2600 Athlon processor.

"George John" wrote in message
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Angelo DePalma wrote:
I just want something that doesn't freeze up my computer every time I try
to
use it. If it's free, all the better.

Freeze up your computer? What OS are you running?

Best regards,

George

I was able to fix the database by simply copying the games to another, new
database and running the integrity check. It then let me delete the
duplicate games. Since I did that I have not had a problem with CB at all.

Which makes me wonder if the problem wasn't the corrupted files above all,
and after all.

Thanks all for your suggestions/advice.


"Arfur Million" wrote in message
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"Angelo DePalma" wrote in message
...

Does anyone know of a non-ChessBase database that reads CB files and can
use the Shredder engine for analysis?

Thanks.


If there is one, it won't be able to read *corrupt* CB files. You need
either to fix the files and the problem that is causing them, or just
export them to some other format and buy a database that can read them.

Regards,
Arfur

A WinXP OS should not "freeze". Is *only* the application "freezing"
or the entire system (you have to reset/reboot the system)

--George

What do you call it when all your applications stop, the mouse doesn't work,
and everywhere you see the hourglass?

Whatever you call it, that's what CB does to my system.

"George John" wrote in message
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A WinXP OS should not "freeze". Is *only* the application "freezing"
or the entire system (you have to reset/reboot the system)

--George

Angelo,

That's not supposed to happen to a healthy Windows XP system. When a
XP system freezes it is usually do to a hardware or device driver
problem.

Do you have all the most recent OS patches and device driver updates?

Best regards,

George

Angelo DePalma wrote:
What do you call it when all your applications stop, the mouse doesn't work,
and everywhere you see the hourglass?

You haven't been bitten by the old System Restore problem from back in 2003
for some reason?

There were quite a few postings on it in this newsgroup, if I recall ...
checking ... I see you were bit by it yourself, so I assume this is something
else.

Some people also reported that some anti-virus programs caused massive slowdowns
under some conditions.

Idea: CTRL-ALT-DEL, select Processes, sort list on CPU percentage,
and watch what process is hogging the CPU.

--
Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath

George,

I maintain a very healthy system. The only problems I've ever had on this
machine have been with ChessBase and Shredder. I think I may have solved the
problem though. Something in the "My Games" database was causing the program
to hang, to use up 90-99% of CPU time, and mis-allocate memory. Since I've
cleaned up the database this hasn't happened -- it's been over a day now,
and I've opened CB 3-4 times. By now it should have "hung" at least once.

Angelo



"George John" wrote in message
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Angelo,

That's not supposed to happen to a healthy Windows XP system. When a
XP system freezes it is usually do to a hardware or device driver
problem.

Do you have all the most recent OS patches and device driver updates?

Best regards,

George

No, Anders, I believe it was a corrupted database or corrupted game file. It
now appears to be fixed.

adp

"Anders Thulin" wrote in message
...
Angelo DePalma wrote:
What do you call it when all your applications stop, the mouse doesn't
work, and everywhere you see the hourglass?

You haven't been bitten by the old System Restore problem from back in
2003
for some reason?

There were quite a few postings on it in this newsgroup, if I recall ...
checking ... I see you were bit by it yourself, so I assume this is
something
else.

Some people also reported that some anti-virus programs caused massive
slowdowns
under some conditions.

Idea: CTRL-ALT-DEL, select Processes, sort list on CPU percentage,
and watch what process is hogging the CPU.

--
Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath

Angelo,

Okay, it was a runaway application (hogging the CPU), which made the
system appear to "freeze" when in fact it had not. I'm glad you
found the problem (dB problem), and CB is now running well.

Best regards,

George John

"Angelo DePalma" wrote in message
...
I was able to fix the database by simply copying the games to another, new
database and running the integrity check. It then let me delete the
duplicate games. Since I did that I have not had a problem with CB at all.

Which makes me wonder if the problem wasn't the corrupted files above all,
and after all.

Thanks all for your suggestions/advice.


Since it's working nicely, now would be a good time to start taking regular
backups of the files (which you may well be doing anyway, in which case this
advice is superfluous). I hope it keeps working for you.

Regards,
Arfur