Holy Smokes! Crashariffic!

You are overheating your CPU!
It was happeneing to me for stuff before until I remounted the Heatsink and put 2 extra fans in there.

AMD old T-bird 1200mhz!

Moopf try running another program that uses 100% CPU power. The reason that it shutsdown is safety!! Also, make sure your multipliers are at a safe lvl. In the Bios just select the factory setting for your CPU don't manually do it!

2nd I see that you were underclocking, i've had som issues that is I underclock too much the system is unstable under high CPU load! We all know SL is a CPU whore!

Nexus, I know this thread has gone on a bit, but all of what you suggest has been gone through. I have been watching the temp both in Bios and using Asus Probe and there is no over heating problem here at all. I have two fans, none of which are the standard case fans (it's a Volcano on the CPU and the heatsink isn't even getting mild).

The underclocking happened because some times after the crashing I thought I'd try with the safe settings the Bios wanted to use after the crash, it's not the normal way I run this machine, I was just trying things out and it appears many of the crash reports I submitted whilst underclocking.

I'm no novice at this, I built this machine myself (as I always do) and I use it everyday and have done for over 6 months. I run rendering software, Photoshop and, at any one time, up to around 15 applications and heaven knows how many IE windows. I have never had this happen on this machine.

Plus, the overriding point I feel I constantly have to make, is that I had NO problems with SL on this same computer before 1.3.3. That, to me, is strange, I have to admit.

But anyway, I'm going to try the installing windows again to see if that makes any difference. Sorry if I'm tetchy, I've wasted another whole day on this when I should be working.

i still *REALLY* heavilly reccomend a new xp install moopf

i had almost exactly the same thing happen with 1.3.4 suddenly and for no apparant reason SL jus started crashing repeatedly every 10-15 minutes jus over an over

i SWORE it was somethin must have changed

but then on a hunch i tried to run a torture test with Prime95

damn thing would jus immediately crash out to the desktop over an over

at that point i KNEW somethin wasn right with the machine... underclocked the ram and the processor... same thing.. it wouldn even really START the torture test jus crash out... i knew somethin was really off then but it prolly wasn hardware cause i've NEVER seen prime95 be THAT unstable with an otherwise perfectly stable machine...

a fresh windows install and prime95 ran the gamut for an hour, no problems...

i was connected *WITH* an ati card for 6 straight hours to SL last night... no so much as a hiccup... that has *NEVER* happened to me before... and on the exact same system that just a day before (with the old windows install) that literally wasn stable for 10 minutes it jus blew my mind.

I don't pretend to know exactly *WHAT* it was with 1.3.4 that seemed to make it so much worse.. but the probelm was obviously rooted in windows itself, and SL was more of the symptom than the disease

thats why i really really reccomend a fresh install before ya go nuts pullin yer hair out

most always, when a few people seem to have a recurring issue and no one else does...well..obviously it's not gonna be client side really. Something may refuse to play nice , but it'll almost always be the subject's machine. OS, peripherals...both?

regardless of what you put into it, how bulletproof you think it is, or how current it is...it's gonna wind up being an issue there...

Not your fault. Not every machine will work all of the time. 'Tis the nature of Winblows...dumbed down enough for everyone to play.

something you might try. I'm not sure if you have or not...but you MAY want to slide down the settings on your video card, even though this is all based more on CPU and bandwidth than anything else, you'll still find the culprit much of the time in the video chipset. Don't use a proprietary performance tuner either, but, rather, a second party ...such as PowerStrip...shareware, which you can get at http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

...slide 'em both up AND down and see what happens...

...and report back , if you haven't gone absolutely batty by then!

One last thing....do you have shitty ram? Visceral reply may be "NO!! why the hell do you think I'd put in shitty ram??" ..but, well..the things I;ve seen. People skimp where they can, and many many people do on ram. The cheapest chip isn't always the best. If you have 2 512's try taking one out and see if this works any better for you...then try the other....you'll thrash your HDD likely, but you may find a module that worked fine for the previous iteration but NOT for the new one....


good luck!

I was having almost the exact problem as Moopf, and am fairly sure it isnt a heating problem asi I have at least 6 fans in my puter. I MAY still have the problem, but since finally figuring how to uprade the chip on the mobo I havent been in world long enough to verify it's fixed.