Wierd cruncher freeze

VirtualLarry

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I've got a Q9300 rig with 8GB of DDR2 and a HD4850 512MB card in it.

It's been running pretty-much non-stop for a couple of months, I think.

I've been waking the screen up every few days, just to check on it.

When I went to wake it up just a little bit ago, it said that Skype had crashed, and I clicked on Close Program, and the window froze while it was fading out. Mouse still moved, couldn't C-A-D. Clicked on Task Manager icon in taskbar, and the mouse froze too.

Not sure what caused it. I rebooted, and CPU temps with BOINC running were around 62C on all four cores, more or less, so it wasn't overheating.
 

Ken g6

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Is it overclocked? Maybe the overclock has gotten less stable as the computer's gotten older?

Or maybe you shouldn't run Windows continuously for a couple of months?
 

Assimilator1

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You could try running OCCT for 24hrs to see if it's stable, but 1st have you scanned for spyware?