Mart wrote:

Mike wrote :-

... One thing it isn't is overheating! (see e-mail). g

Not surprised when you added :-

I woke this morning to see snow flakes 5cm (2") across!

Environmentally friendly, 'green' cooling? - but not inside the
house, I hope bg

Well I have now succumbed and put the heating on. :-)

It looks as if the problems on the other box are with a large RAID5 array.
I was able to access its log from BING and there's no errors reported.
When I first rebooted after the crash chkdsk ran on that array and found a
couple of "small" problems but I fear its far worse. I couldn't get
beyond a partial desktop in either Safe or Normal Mode before the box
locked up. Has just happened again but this time got to a full desktop
and was accessing the Event Logs when it locked again. Am going to let it
run for a while in case it unlocks as the previous times this has happened
I simply shut down. With 4x320GB drives making up the array (896GB) I
might have lost up to 800GB of data. Grrrrrr.

I think I may have to pull the box apart and start testing the individual
drives making up the array.

Mike