POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.bugreports: 3.7 doesn't run on vista 32-bit, no source code available to build: Re: 3.7 doesn't run on vista 32-bit, no source code available tobuild

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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 11 Sep 2016 04:37:59
Message: <57d517e7@news.povray.org>


> As an example, we once(*) had a report on these newsgroups of POV-Ray
> producing strange stray white pixels in the output image; after some
> research, it turned out that this guy had apparently been operating his
> CPU (also some AMD, btw) without adequate cooling, and while the CPU
> appeared to still be fine to do other things, it did fail sporadically
> but frequently while executing POV-Ray, littering the output with ramdom
> white pixels. Replacing the CPU solved the issue. (*Until the same
> person burned out the replacement CPU as well.)
>

   Yep... that was me. :) And yes, the CPUs where AMD Athlon X2 in both 
cases.

--
jaime

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