Wham!

[alexpgp]

Well, after starting and stopping Webcam32 a couple of times (I had to cut the connection so Mark could go online using his machine), I connected once more and then began interpreting before I could restart the application's FTP upload function.

The machine spontaneously rebooted.

Based on what I'd seen on the MemTurbo screen, there was plenty of memory and swap space when the reboot occurred.

The reboot led to Safe Mode. Restarting from Safe Mode led to... Safe Mode. And yet again.

After ending up in Safe Mode for the fourth time, I shut the machine down.

I would thus venture to say that if Webcam32 is the culprit (highly likely, as it was the only application running, besides MemTurbo and dial-up networking), it's likely not a memory leak that's causing the reboot.

Doing a cold start on the laptop brought up my desktop (whew!). No more experimenting tonight.

Cheers...

Comments

This seems appropriate

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

It's beginning to sound like a hardware problem to me...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Maybe. But if so, it's one that manifests itself only when running particular applications (or combinations of applications).

:(

Cheers...