Sentient computers?

[Spacehead]

So i'm at home here yesterday & we're having a mini heatwave & it's hot as **BEEP** in the house, so i figured i'd give my comps the afternoon off.
So i go through all 3 of them & exit out of SETI Driver to give them a bit of a cool down period before shuting them off completely.

After about 15 minutes i go to shutdown Castor, my P4 3.0Ghz HT cruncher only. I just get the mouse over the start button & it freezes up, so i move on to Aldebaran, my Win 98se XP 1800 that just won't quit, & shut it off.
Go back to Castor & there a blue screen saying there's a problem with Windows blah, blah, blah. Dasm!
So i give it a hard shutdown, wait a few minutes & fire it back up... still BSOD. Double Dasm!! :|
Try it a few more times & it finally allows me the option of booting into safe mode, so i try that. Nothing.

Did Castor enjoy S@H so much that it can't take being shut down during extreme heat?
Whould it rather kill itself than not to be able to crunch?

Sounds like inteligent life to me.
What do you think?





Before i try anything i'm going to either call or look on Dell's website as this things still under warranty.
S@H output will be down abit till i get this back up & running. Poor thing did about 18 WUs a day :brokenheart:

 

[ProviaFan]

That sucks; I hope you can get it fixed promptly and without the loss of too much production.

 

[Wolfsraider]

I have one doing something similar lol

its crunching fad. It shuts down if anything else is run on it. but a restart and it comes right back on.

I have to reapply artic silver 5 on it thiough as its temp was near 90c last time I started it.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yikes! :Q

Spachead
lol ,ask it how it feels

Hope you get it fixed easily!

 

[RaySun2Be]

Did Castor enjoy S@H so much that it can't take being shut down during extreme heat?
Whould it rather kill itself than not to be able to crunch?

I think so. I've had similar problems with PCs. Ran fine, no problems for months, had to take SETI off of it, and within 2 days it died. :Q

I thought it was just the HD going bad, but maybe it just couldn't go on without SETI. :Q