On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, John Harrison wrote:
and it was the same thing: complete computer freeze with even mouse and keyboard not responding, requiring me to pull the plug. I've tried both as root and not.
The only time that I've had the computer crash that bad, without being in realtime mode, was when I tried using [pix_dv] that I had transplanted into GridFlow. The kernel-based DV interface is very brittle.
The only other possibility I can think of, is defective RAM and defective CPU, but those wouldn't crash so predictably *and* instantly. I used to have a CPU that would crash whenever I was using it at 100% with SIMD code for more than approx 5 minutes if I was not using the following CPU fan:
http://artengine.ca/matju/pics/fan.jpg
but that's surely not the problem that you are experiencing.
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