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From: Sim B
Subject: Render crashes on a Celeron
Date: 26 Oct 2001 19:41:46
Message: <Xns9146C84C79C84hoycjhmfywcjspammote@204.213.191.226>

Hello,
    Attempting to render _any_ POV-Ray scene crashes Pov-Ray.  Povray 
parses the scene, but crashes after I see "Warning Stream to Console."  I 
then need to reboot Windows because the system becomes slightly unstable.

Pov-Ray version 3.1g.watcom.win32 (Pentium II optimized) works on my 
computer though.



Bug information:
    Pov-Ray 3.5 Beta 6, Microsoft Windows 95 4.00.950 B, Intel(R) 
Celeron(TM) @ 800 MHz, 256 MB of PC100 SDRAM.


Here are the error details reported by CrashGuard version 4:


Windows 95 Version 4.00.950 B
PVENGINE.EXE caused fault #c000001d in PVENGINE.EXE at address 
014f:005d2286

EAX:00000000 CS=014f EIP=005d2286 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000001 SS=0157 ESP=0387e81c EBP=0387e81c
ECX=00000000 DS=0157 ESI=00cea2d8 FS=36bf
EDX=00672de0 ES=0157 EDI=0387e9d8 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f 28 c0 b8 01 00 00 00 8b e5 5d c3 33 c0 8b e5

Stack dump:
0387e854 005d2361 004925d6 00000020 0387f180 00ca48a0 004925d6 00000020 
0061b690 00000020 0387e8d8 00000001 0383f9ff 0000068a 00cea45c 00cea2d8



More CPU info -
Information from the Intel(R) Processor Frequency ID Utility:

	Processor Name: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) Processor
	Type: 0
	Family: 6
	Model: 8
	Stepping: A
	MMX: Yes
	SIMD: Yes
	SIMD2: No
	Reported processor Frequency: 800 MHz
	Reported System Bus Frequency: 100 MHz



Motherboard:   Soyo SY-7VCA-E
Chipset:       VIA Technologies VT82c694X Apollo Pro133 Chipset

Internet Explorer 4 has not been installed yet, this should only affect the 
help file though. Could it be that I the wrong version of some system .dlls 
or the new compiler sometimes creates executables incompatible with (newer) 
Celeron CPUs?



Regards,
    Sim B.

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From: Adrien Beau
Subject: Re: Render crashes on a Celeron
Date: 27 Oct 2001 02:43:39
Message: <3BDA57A3.9BAD907B@free.fr>

You're not overclocking your CPU, by chance?

You have never experienced stability problems with other
programs than POV 3.5?

-- 
Adrien Beau   adr### [at] freefr   http://adrien.beau.free.fr/

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From: Sim B
Subject: Re: Render crashes on a Celeron
Date: 27 Oct 2001 13:29:16
Message: <Xns91478928E6B8Ahoycjhmfywcjspammote@204.213.191.226>

Adrien Beau <adr### [at] freefr> wrote in news:3BDA57A3.9BAD907B@free.fr:

> You're not overclocking your CPU, by chance?
> 
> You have never experienced stability problems with other
> programs than POV 3.5?
> 

    I'm not overclocking the CPU: I bought the 800 MHz Celeron from a local 
computer store and haven't changed the CPU BIOS (detection) or motherboard 
settings from the recommended values. The Intel CPU identifier utility says 
that the Celeron is running at its designed speed, and not above it.   My 
system and all my other applications and games are running well.

Thanks for asking.

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