Slice of Chaotic Life

So the quad-core is in trouble again. It suddenly reboots every few minutes when I play a game, even a browser game. (In fact, browser games in Firefox seem to explode it faster than Sims 3, which lasted a quarter of an hour.) It takes much longer to blow it up with reading and writing in Opera or massive copying of files, and it seems to not restart at all when left with just the Folding@home client (using 25% of the processor, on my machine.)

The symptoms are quite similar to before the power supply melted down last time. This one should be a little stronger, though, and the temperature monitor does not indicate a problem. Still, it seems too much of a coincidence that this problem shows up shortly after the temperatures approach tropical. (It was around 30 degrees C in the room – that’s 8 degrees below a fever, for you anti-metrics. ^_^)