25 days = no fish?

[Jav400]

Do without my fishes for 2 days!!??? Man, what a slave driver you are.

[Jav400]

OK, I rebooted the machine again, *sigh* this reminds me of 98SE, and turned off all screensavers. Now I will wait for a couple days and then turn them back on and see what happens after the test period. I'll have the date in this post to remember by........

OS[Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 4 (5.0 - 2195)] Uptime[7m 35s] CPU[2-Intel Pentium 4, 3229MHz, 512KB (21% Load)] Mem[Usage: 251/1023MB (24.54%)_[||--------]] Gfx[NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT @ 1600x1200 32bit 75Hz] C:[14.75/111.78GB(13%)]

[Jav400]

I will use this post date to remember by, am now turning MA back on as my default screensaver.

[Jav400]

Edgar,

My fish are gone again, here is the time frame. After the last reboot I waited 2 days before setting or running any screensaver, but they are still gone after about the same 25 day period. The 2 days didn't make any difference.

OS[Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 4 (5.0 - 2195)] Uptime[3w 4d 3h 40m 48s] CPU[2-Intel Pentium 4, 3198MHz, 512KB (7% Load)] Mem[Usage: 347/1023MB (33.92%)_[|||-------]] Gfx[NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT @ 1600x1200 32bit 75Hz] C:[14.83/111.78GB(13%)]

[Marian Nichols]

Michael, your fish got tired after 25 days and no time off, they just taking a nap.

[Edgar]

Michael, I expected this to happen. So the problem had nothing to do when you started running the screensaver.

I have an idea that could cause your problem. But of course testing this after the fix would be difficult to do, because I don't have a system that I leave running continously.

Have you rebooted yet? If you haven't and you don't mind doing some test, I can send you a few test program to know exactly what is going on.

[feldon34]

Edgar,

Any Win2k box left running for 24 days will experience this. Could you possibly produce a build of the Aquarium that spits out a diagnostic log file?

Or better yet set up a machine there running win2k and the Aquarium and debugger. Then you can test it.

[Edgar]

I will suggest that to Jim(Schnaaps) so we can have a test system.

[Edgar]

Michael,
Were you only testing the MD versions of the screensaver or did you test the normal version also?

[Jav400]

Sorry Edgar, I didn't think to try the older version. I don't even have it installed on that machine. I tried Goldfish and Sharks, which were both already there and got the same results, neither would run.

[Edgar]

No problem. I will do what Morgan suggested. I will set up a machine to reproduce the problem.
In fact, I think I do have work computer running for more than a month now without a reboot. It is an XP. That might be enough for me to test.

I just connect to it by remote desktop when I need to from home where I normally work.

[patscarr]

Michael, were you running the screensaver non-stop 24/7?

[Jav400]

No, it just comes on after ~10 minutes or so. Then monitor sleep comes on after ~ 30 minutes. But, let my system run for 25 days without a reboot and none of the screen savers will run anymore. All I get is a black screen.

[Edgar]

Michael,

I have the fix to this bug. I will let Jim (Shnaaps) know. I have to generate new executables to all our screensavers. It is a common code that has the problem. That is why none of them worked.

Thanks for finding this bug.

[Jav400]

You are most welcome. Glad that you figured it out.

[ESHIREY]

Cool. I thought maybe the fish were just tired.