No, not me, my computer ;-) But seriously - I did two things, took a plate out of an empty slot, and bought a can of compressed air, which I'd never used before.
When I used the compressed air, besides giving me a headache for the past hour (I have a *tiny* dorm room), it knocked a lot of dust out of my CPU fan - it looked like hitting a puffball with the lawn mower, no exaggeration. The system seems stable now - I thought it would be unable to do LL, and evne trial factoring had a decent chance of a system crash, but I'm now testing the first 35 Mersenne primes rather than doing a normal torture test, which might be slowed down by using main memory. I'm now testing M132049, and the only "error" so far has been "this exponent is not assigned to us". If the system finishes all the Mersennes (much) below 3Mbits without bluescreening, I'm going to run the two 3M primes, and then bring it back to LL testing. I'll delete all my selftestNpassed lines, just to be on the safe side, but I really think the issue was a heat issue, which is now gone. Update: As I finish typing this message, I've finished the P-1 on M216091, still no problems :) Regards, Nathan, getting ready to leave his dorm room before the compressed air gets to him too much _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
