Another possibility - do you have power management? If you are running the disk hard for 30 minutes or more, and if there's a problem with the airflow in your system, it may well shut itself off because of overheating.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:56:24PM -0000, Bob W wrote: > I'll give that a try - I bought more RAM specially for Lightroom. > > The system doesn't hang though - it switches off the power. > > -- > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of John Francis > > Sent: 15 March 2007 13:16 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: Lightroom crashing my PC > > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:40:34PM -0400, Mat Maessen wrote: > > > On 3/14/07, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Over the last few days I've had some problems where LR crashes > my > > > > whole PC. It seems to happen during long-running > > processes, such as > > > > importing, and uploading to the website. That is, when > > the progress > > > > > > I've seen similar problems in a PC that has a bad memory > > DIMM. There's > > > a program you can download called memtest86 that can test for it. > > > Google for it for details. > > > > That would be my first thought, too. A memory-intensive application > > such as Lightroom will put more stress on your machine in 30 minutes > > than you would otherwise see in a week. The reported symptoms are > > consistent with that, too; if some of the pageable OS code ends up > > in the section of memory with intermittent failures then you could > > very well end up with a hung system. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
