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On 6/28/2011 7:58 AM, Guy Hughes wrote:
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Recently I was told that Chimera would be a very useful tool
when married with the data from IMOD so I downloaded a copy from
your website. I regret to admit that I had several problems with
the programme and eventually had to delete. The main problem was
that my computer continued to blue-screen and perform very
slowly if at all. The labtop I was using has the following
spec.;
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CPU: Intel Core i5 <br>
VGA: NVIDIA Geforce 310M/1GB DDR3<br>
RAM: DDRIII 4GB (2GB*2)<br>
OS: Windows 7 64-bit<br>
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Is my PC inadequate or is it possible I downloades a
corrupted/unstable version of Chimera?<br>
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I would very much like to try and start using Chimera again but
would first like some advice on what the original problem may
have been.
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Your PC is adequate. Chimera should not be able to blue-screen your
computer even if it had bug or two in it. The most likely culprit
is your graphics driver. Graphics/video drivers provided by the
laptop vendor are frequently buggy and are updated rarely. Still,
you should first go to the laptop vendor's support website to get
the latest driver for your computer, and if that doesn't fix things,
then get a newer driver directly from NVIDIA. There may be other
updates from your laptop vendor that are important too -- in one
case, the BIOS needed to be updated.<br>
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Good luck,<br>
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Greg<br>
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