Ugh! What's wrong with my hardware?

I'll be playing and... poof! Second Life disappears. No "logging out" or anything like that. It's just gone. It's a very recent problem and this morning I've been trying to play but I haven't been able to because I've had three disappearing problems since I started--which wasn't too long ago. Any time I log in, I end up logged out a half a minute later. Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Mmm, nope, it's official, I really can't play for more than fifteen seconds now gonna try to reinstall the game...

Daem,

I guess you noticed we're both having problems since the downtime this morning. I thought your suggestion was a good one, so I reinstalled, but I still can't log on.

So you're ahead of me...you get 15 seconds. I get none, except in 1.4 Preview, so I guess that's where I'll head for now.

Maggie

Hmmm.. lots of things could be causing this. I'm assuming your internet connection is otherwise OK and that it's only SL that's playing up?

Reinstalling is always a good first step especially as SL doesn't have any persistant data.

Assuming you are on a windows box make sure your anti-virus is up to date. If a windows box starts acting up out of the blue I'm always suspicious that it may have become infected.

If I'd read a bit further down the forum I might have noticed that the whole network is down.

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The reinstallation helped for a couple of hours, but then all the sudden while I was building the game just shut off. This time, the thing that records SL crashes popped up--but it kind of just sat there, frozen, until I hit the X button to cancel it out. I logged in after that to say goodbye to the people I'd accidentally disappeared on, but for now, I suppose, my SL is going to be shaky.