Stephen Harris wrote: > > Has your machine got a bad CPU cooling fan? The work involved in bulk > operations like that might be causing it to overheat and perform a thermal > shutdown.... or simply crash. I had a Windows machine that would work > just fine, except one program would cause a crash after 10 minutes; > turns out it was stressing the CPU and causing overheating problems > 'cos the CPU fan had died! Nothing else was causing enough workload to > cause the problem. > On a related note, try running something like mprime <http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/> to stress the machine. See if it crashes when it is stressed. Ryan