phredgreen

Okay, here's the specs, don't laugh:

Celeron 533 with 200(ish) MB of RAM, 7GB HD, and onboard video. no clue what the mobo is, it was a hand-me-down. My OS is win2k, I run sygate personal firewall, and i have the router (Linksys BEFSR41) set to allow my computer DMZ access (no router interference with incoming/outgoing traffic). I just updated and ran scans by Norton Antivirus, Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy, all came up clean. I run torrents via Azureus, latest update. While those are running, I typically will have trillian, mIRC, and possibly Firefox open, but it has done it when those programs were not open.

I'm currently trying to download a large torrent (330ish MB), and my computer is randomly rebooting. It dosen't give any error messages, the screen simly goes blank and the computer starts up again. Anyone have this experience or know about it? Anything I might be able to do to prevent this? I've tried throttling my uploads down from unlimited to 10KBps to reduce the amount of data moving through the machine, but that hasn't prevented it from happening. I've downloaded larger torrents before with no issues, this one is just being a butt. should i just give up hope on this torrent, or is there something i might try to prevent the reboots?

Your help is appreciated, wiseacres and smart-ass comments aren't.

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