thanks. My fans are pretty noisy, but they always have been - I'll bear it in mind though. I run behind a hardware firewall, and I have virus checking etc.
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Boris Liberman > Sent: 15 March 2007 05:21 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Lightroom crashing my PC > > Bob, my LightRoom crashed several times like a program would normally > crash - displaying this standard dialog and then just close. It never > made my whole PC hang. However I usually run LR alone - > nothing else is > running at the same time. Also I have asked my brother (a > professional > sys. admin) to take out all unnecessary parts of Windows, > like redundant > services, etc. So when my computer boots up, it only takes > order of 80 > Mb of RAM. I suggest you try to do the same. > > As for the internet - I am running from behind the router (very cheap > Netgear piece) so that I don't need a software firewall. > Also, routinely > I don't have a resident anti virus program. I run it > occasionally manually. > > Also of course checking your hardware for possible malfunction due to > age or dust is a good idea. Also be sure to check the > internal fans of > your PC. > > Cheers. > > Boris > > > > > Bob W 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 > > meter is shown in the top left. It crashes when the process is > > running, and I try to do something else, such as select one of the > > thumbnails. Unfortunately it isn't consistent or > reproducible at will. > > No error messages or anything helpful are displayed, it simply > > switches the machine off. > > > > Anybody else had anything like this? I've scanned the > Lightroom forum > > - some similar things have been reported, but not exactly > the same. I > > can't see anything helpful in the Windows event log. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Bob > > > > > > > -- > 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
