That may well be mine as well. 11 year old inspiron. If I have more than 3 apps open, and or try to do more than 6 minutes strait of tuff in ptoshop, and same for illustrator. Oddly I can work about 20 min chrome canary with one of there no-script-equivilent addons, tube-html5+addblocks. Using
https://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/ to storboad my SVG file first. DEL have a history of using OEM parts with problems. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM, cody dooderson <[email protected]> wrote: > That could be my problem. My particular Mac is known for graphics card > issues. My current work around is to not ever boot into Windows, and it has > worked beautifully so far. > > Cody Smith > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:03 PM, James Steiner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> An overheating video card will shut down a system. I have one that >> does (did) it. I use a laptop as a video player driving an external >> VGA display. It would periodically shut down while playing video (and >> only then). Setting it up in a A-frame position and ensuring moving >> room air was blowing through it helped. >> >> I recently took it apart because of the sudden appearance of noise in >> the displayed video. It seems that the constant high heat had actually >> vaporized the solder on some of the contacts of the VGA connector to >> the main board. I refreshed the solder, and the problem... evaporated. >> I've decided to leave the keyboard and top cover (touch pad) off to >> help it stay cool. I use it with a wireless keyboard and mouse, >> anyway. >> >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:09 PM, cody dooderson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I use bootcamp. >> > >> > Cody Smith >> > >> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Russell Standish < >> [email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:20:14PM -0600, cody dooderson wrote: >> >> > Windows tends to heat my Mac laptop up so hot that it shuts down. >> It's >> >> > not >> >> > the most useful feature of the operating system. >> >> > >> >> > Cody Smith >> >> > >> >> >> >> Are you running Windows in a Virtual Machine, or dual booting your >> >> laptop? If the former, then the fault could be with the Virtual >> Machine. I >> >> have noticed Virtual Box running at 100% CPU when running an idle >> >> version of MacOSX , for instance. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> >> Principal, High Performance Coders >> >> Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] >> >> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> >> >> >> Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret >> >> (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > >> > >> > >> > ============================================================ >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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