Right... that's what I said: I'm sure it's not a bug in POV-Ray. But since I
can only get this problem to occur with POV-Ray, I'm trying to figure out
what POV-Ray is doing at startup that no other application on my workstation
is doing (because no other program on my workstation causes it to
spontaneously reboot).

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3e67c401$1@news.povray.org...
> In article <3e67c0b9$1@news.povray.org> , "Scott Gammans"
> <nos### [at] scottgammansspamisevilcom> wrote:
>
> > e.g., does POV-Ray call any DirectX functions that momentarily exercise
the
> > video card?
>
> No.  POV-Ray is a ray-tracer.  DirectX is no use for it.
>
> The problem is probably not POV-Ray but either some driver or another
> application that uses that driver and which you installed recently.
>
>     Thorsten

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