PC crashes when torrents are downloading?

Badger_grr · 1 Mar 2008 at 17:17

PC keeps crashing about 10mins after utorrent is launch but the time it takes varies, sometimes its 5 mins sometimes almost 20 but only when utorrent is running. The screen just freezes and a fast murmering sound out of the speakers.

Ive done virus scans and spyware. Nothing appears to be overheating. :confused:

So if anyone has any ideas...

Thanks

Badger_grr · 3 Mar 2008 at 17:59

bump

anyone?

fat-600 · 3 Mar 2008 at 18:09

what bulid is it? i had a problem with the latest version (1.7.7) but utorrent was just locking up, so i downloaded 1.7.6 and seems to be ok

Camalot · 3 Mar 2008 at 19:26

utorrent crashes on my laptop, but ok on desktop. Started to hate torrents so moved to newsgroups instead, much faster

tbz_ck · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:05

If you are running it on Vista 64 then it is a known bug. I run the latest one on my XP partition and it runs fine.

Greenlizard0 · 4 Mar 2008 at 17:22

There is a problem with uTorrent and some Nvidia based motherboards (chipset?) which result in BSOD's.

Badger_grr · 5 Mar 2008 at 11:46

hey guys thanks for the advice but in the end i realised it was crashing because of spybot search and destroy. odd huh

bledd · 28 May 2008 at 15:47

could be the nvidia firewall if you're using it, it's cack

dan653 · 28 May 2008 at 16:33

reduce the maximum amount of global connections utorrent is allowed to use (200 or less)

options>preferences>bittorrent

you dont happen to be using usb modem are you

David91 · 28 May 2008 at 16:45

bledd. said:
could be the nvidia firewall if you're using it, it's cack

thats true, Utorrent is known not to like Nvidia firewall, at all

the only way to fix this problem is to uninstall the Nvidia firewall completely or update it to a newer version

the utorrent FAQ shows that Nvidia firewall can eat your system memory (and therefore make it crash in your case?).

read here for details of how to remove it or upgrade it