I understand. Its a dell laptop. I have experienced before that dell will shutdown and give a boot message if it has overheating problems.. maybe its best to give the laptop 1 or 2 hrs a day cooling down time 'cos its quite hot as you have expected...

If it is a new one, is it a dual core laptop? I got my wife one of those and I run Boinc on only 1 core, not both. She does not even notice it is running and it does not get hot at all.

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I understand. Its a dell laptop. I have experienced before that dell will shutdown and give a boot message if it has overheating problems.. maybe its best to give the laptop 1 or 2 hrs a day cooling down time 'cos its quite hot as you have expected...

On one of the BOINC stations I run XP. If I keep this station running 24h it restarts. its a brand new pc, so I dont expect any problems. I really use this unit abusively, and it newer crashed...

Sounds like you might have overheating issues. Is it very close to the wall? In an enclosed cabinet? Is it sitting on the floor and do you have pets? All of these things would interfer with the airflow thru and around the machine.

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On one of the BOINC stations I run XP. If I keep this station running 24h it restarts. its a brand new pc, so I dont expect any problems. I really use this unit abusively, and it newer crashed...