OS suddenly restarts while using 3.7.1

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Hello!

I’ve been using Audacity for my recordings. My PC specs are, briefly:
AMD FX-6300 six-core
16 GB DDR3L
NVIDIA QUADRO P400 with two 144 Hz monitors
Behringer UM2 with cardioid mic

A fairly old machine that works really well!

However, the PC restarts suddenly in the middle of a session. Just restarts, as if I just pushed the restart button. Tried Windows 10 Pro, Windows 11 Pro and Manjaro Linux 6.12, so it’s not a hardware problem. Note that I have all drivers properly updated.

Is there a config issue on Audacity?

Thank you very much for your help.

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On the same “old machine”. I think you do have a hardware problem…

An application isn’t supposed to crash Windows but a driver can. I don’t know if that’s the case with Linux or MacOS.

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If all those operating systems are running on the same PC and each one crashes in Audacity, I’m inclined to agree with DVDdoug that it’s probably a hardware fault - maybe RAM. You could test it using Memtest running on a USB stick unless your bootloader has memtest as an option. In that case you could run it from boot.
I hope you can sort it out.
Mark B

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