Open Ended Record Allocation

[Fastermouse]

As some of you may know, I have had a spate of re-boots in on my PC when using PT. They have gotten less frequent over the past year, but still surprise me from time to time. They usually have no blue screnn, just a shut down and restart. I have replaced power supply, light drive, memory, video card, remove the wireless card and moved to a usb wireless that I remove when using PT, mainly replaced every thing but the drives and mobo. I regularly update drives and PACE divers and clear prefs and databases.

Recently an old thread was revived and someone with a similar issue was advised to shorten O E R A to 10 minutes. I admit that I should have done this long ago. Seeing as how my re-boots are far between, although maddening, I don't know if this is my solution. Has anyone had any experiences in this area?

I know that only time will tell, but I am looking for validation and hoping that someone can reassure me as I lie awake at night, stressing that the next reboot won't happen during the take where Paul McCartney is finally breaking down and rushes to my studio to change the lyrics to Hey Jude to Hey John, instead.

[sunburst79]

My expirence with a system shutdown that doesn't give you a terminal stop screen aka BSOD is that they are almost always hardware based.

Check you BIOS for a update perhaps, Run Memtest86+ just for kicks. Also you might reseat any cards.

Do you have a decent surge supresser/UPS to keep voltage spikes out of you computers PSU? even smaller spikes can do damage over time.

[Fastermouse]

Thanks but all of this has been done, including now using a series of power conditioning that assures no spikes.