Scott Gammans's furious key-hammering produced this:
> OK, this is really weird. I went to the Windows 2000 event log and saw a
> bunch of errors that read something like "Windows 2000 has rebooted because
> of a bugcheck."

Bugcheck?  Heh, I don't think I've ever seen that before.

> I also noticed that the system log was VERY large, and I
> seem to recall that Windows get flaky when the event log gets to be of
> considerable size.

The event log should have a size limit imposed on it (it does on XP, at least).
Try right-clicking on the particular log and clicking "properties".  Mine are
all set to 512KB (the default for XP) and I haven't had any problems with it.

> And now I can't seem to get
> POV-Ray to crash Windows... whether I have "Automatically reboot" checked or
> not.

How is that a bad thing? ;)

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