Lock ups!

I don't get it. This computer is extremely stable and never crashes on me. I can run multiple applications that are extremely CPU intensive, download hundreds of files through IRC, FTP and even gozilla. I can have all these things running at the same time, and never have a problem.

However, after a fresh install, I cannot run any of the gnutella clients without my computer locking up on me. I can run it for about half an hour or so, and then it seems to lock up on me. I can't figure out why. The computer just freezes. Is there some kind of setting that causes too many incoming connections or something? Does anyone else have this problem?

athlon 1300 (with sdram)
512mb
Soyo k7vta board
tried several NIC cards.
so on and so forth

Help?
Patrick

There are many possible reasons for this. If no other program causes lock-ups, you may try to see if any other programs are running as well as the client. Some programs early on in design can cause problems running with certain other programs due to a number of reasons...most of which would not be resolvable by this letter.

Try running the client with a clean boot with nothing (no virusscan, firewalls or anything, only "explorer" and "systray" in Task Manager), then simply open the program and wait and see. I have virtually the same system as yours, except with a Duron 850 cpu and only 256MB ram. Using GNOTELLA 0.9.9 I've had some slowing of the system, usually when I'm really going download crazy, but no lockups.

Yeah, not much help really, but worth a try...