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Internet & Networking => Networking => Topic started by: Big on September 03, 2010, 10:02:25 AM

Title: Can TCP connection overload cause your computer to crash and shutdown?
Post by: Big on September 03, 2010, 10:02:25 AM

See question in topic.
Can it?
I was using µTorrent when suddenly in the middle of the night my PC just poof,
gave up and shut down.
I checked the 'System' category in the Event Viewer, and I see something in the likes of 'max TCP connections reached' around that hour.

So I am wondering, can this exception (overload of TCP connections) cause my PC to shutdown by itself?
My PC rarely does this.

Title: Re: Can TCP connection overload cause your computer to crash and shutdown?
Post by: Salmon Trout on September 03, 2010, 10:28:18 AM

No, reaching max TCP connections cannot cause your computer to crash. This is just a network interface setting  It must be something else. See what other events happened around that time. Could be hardware faults or overheating.