Humm not happy and sorry to my wingmen on this - my main crunching PC lost its net connection during the night and choose to start putting out 0 results and messages relating to "if you continue to get 0 results please reset the project" at which point whilst looking at the logs my mahcine blue screened, and rebooted.

after investigation the cpu fan had a cable in it preventing it from spinng (how and for how long i have no idea)

anyway when it rebooted the drive i used for seti had become corrupted and I thought "not a problem i will just run the back up - aka restore it"

whoops the backup was on the same drive (hits head against wall)

oh well here to starting over...

I'm surprised that it just shutdown from the heat

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I have it set to shut down when the cpu fan speed drops to save the hardware, I had stupidly left some cables tied up with a rubber band which of course dried oit perished and snapped. Totally my fault whoops!

I have it set to shut down when the cpu fan speed drops to save the hardware, I had stupidly left some cables tied up with a rubber band which of course dried oit perished and snapped. Totally my fault whoops!

I did exactly the same thing on an i7 ASRock MB. I couldn't work out why the RAC of the machine was low and tasks taking forever to complete.

I installed the ASROCK monitoring utility which showed the CPU speed was cycling from 0 to 2.67GHz and keeping the CPU temperature at a constant 90C. Then I looked closely at the CPU fan and it had a power lead jammed in it.

Removed the lead, CPU dropped to about 50C and the speed remained constant at 2.67GHz.

It had probably been like it for a couple of weeks......... oops!

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