Computer locks up and/or reboots during process

[daxgk]

Hi,

I am new here and had a problem while using this program. When I actually start the process, after a little while my computer completely freezes up. Last night I shut all programs off except this one, and when I woke up my computer had rebooted.

I tried searching for threads that would answer this, but couldn't find any. Also, I can't find my log file..I'm using win xp. I went to c:\documents and settings\kal\local settings\application data but there is no badgersoft folder.

Thanks for any tips, seems like a great program.

[iooi]

Well the log file will be in the folder you specified for the finished files to got to.
As to why its locking up is anybodies guess without more info on what you were trying to do and what settings you are using.
The more info you can supply the better the chance of getting a answer.

[nsdn]

I know this sounds like a long shot, and I have not used this proggy and I do not know how CPU intensive it is, BUT I has a similar problem using procoder to encode video...bloody machine would lock up/reboot spontaniously randomly during encoding.

Yet As I run seti @ home my CPU usage is always at 100%....no other program crashed my machine...frustrated me no end. A heat problem never occured to me.

Then someone sugested I clean the heatsink on my CPU...I must admit I kind of scoffed at this, however I put hardwaremon on my machine to check the CPU temperature....

Low and behold when using procoder my CPU core temp went way up above normal (even though its always running at 100% cuz of seti @ home)...and ultimately the machine would become unstable. I took the machine appart and cleaned the fins on the heatsink, this made about a 15Deg C differance to the max temperature the CPU core reached (the heatsink was not even THAT dirty...tho it was cloged up a bit).

Anyway I was very happy to find that this was the solution. Machine no longer reboots or crashes.....completly stable.....was a athlon XP2 gig i think then.

Hope this helps yah