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Nope, the 50MB setting didn't change anything. I tried 150MB, too, just in case, but no luck.
My comp does not have any sleep or stand-by mode or anything, it's been on 24/7 for the last 8 years or something.
I'm sure it's just gremlins with my box, I've given up trying to figure it out.
Hmm, 8 years? Maybe its at the end of its lifecycle. I had systems over 5 years old fail in the past. They typically start to act up for no apparent reason. Sometimes it can be narrowed down to e.g. the GPU[1] or the memory[2], sometimes not.
[1]
http://i.stack.imgur.com/XNElP.jpg[2] let memtest86 run over night
