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Message 22496 - Posted: 17 Jan 2009, 22:28:41 UTC

I just installed BOINC today to run SETI, but it turns out if I don't manually shut it down as soon as it automatically starts up, my computer just... turns off. No error message, no warning, just off. I tried just shutting down the Manager and letting SETI keep going, but it turned off again anyway.

I'm running 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium with DirectX 10 on an NVIDIA motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and an NVIDIA 8800GTX graphics card.

Any thoughts?
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Message 22497 - Posted: 17 Jan 2009, 23:30:43 UTC - in response to Message 22496.  

Heat maybe? Did you clean out your CPU's heat sink and fan any time lately? Seti will put your CPU under quite a bit of load, so any heat related problems may shut your PC down.

Anything showing in Event Viewer?
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