Bittorent - Does it reboot your computer???

[UberDave]

Everytime I try downloading something, after about 25 minutes my computer will reboot on its own. Anyone know or have any of the same problems?

 

[eakers]

i had that problem... turned out to be my powersupply.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Yeah...that's not bittorrent

 

[UberDave]

Originally posted by: eakers
i had that problem... turned out to be my powersupply.

my powersupply is fine. Only when running BT does my computer reboot. Happened like 7 times.

 

[Zugzwang152]

weird, mine works fine.

 

[UberDave]

Yeah it is weird.


Every movie i've downloaded from BT has been choppy, messed up, or just been very ... weird.

 

[hollowman]

software/driver conflict?

 

[Howard]

Everything I download with BT is fine.

 

[arod]

I have that problem on my laptop... dont knwo why but it will just give a blue screen after about 25 mins and it never crashes when torrent isnt active...

 

[Krugger]

what OS?
BT has varying problems, one of which is high CPU/mem usage. keep an eye on that, perhaps that is causing the reboot... but i wouldnt really know. maybe post in the softare forum or find a BT forum.
-Krugger

 

[MercenaryForHire]

High cpu/mem? Not on mine ... it's never eaten up more than 2% (XP2100) and about 16MBs.

Update your NIC drivers ... there's an issue on the BT FAQ page with certain 3coms (IIRC)

- M4H

 

[notfred]

it uses bout 10% of my CPU and 3mb of ram on my OS X laptop. Haven't had a single problem with it.

 

[LordSnailz]

where do you guys get your BT links?

 

[Timmeh]

Are you using the standard client? Try using the experimental one you can get here

 

[Gunbuster]

My guess is a problem/conflict with your NIC

 

[murphy55d]

negative. mine works fine.

 

[eakers]

might i be the first to suggest: ITS TEH HACKERS.

okay im done.

 

[rh71]

LordSnailz and Timmeh have the right ideas...

Try other torrent links (from other sources) ... maybe it's exploiting a bug in a particular version of the BT client... and you can also try the experimental client (which I've been using for a month with no problems). Never had any problems with any of the clients, actually.

 

[Darien]

Using an experimental bit torrent program that lets me control upload rate...no problems.

No problems with the normal bit torrent either.

 

[GermyBoy]

Nope. If your computer is randomly rebooting, you a) have a software problem, or b) have a hardware problem.

I'd check your components and make sure nothing is overheating.

Since you say it only happens with BT, which is a high bandwidth use, I'd guess that it is your NIC card.

 

[SSP]

CPU load??? It only use like 2-3% in mine and no more then 15Mb. Thats the older one though... I've heard they released a new ver. I was too lazy to download BT after a format.




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