PSU Blows, Now Applications Die!

[leyton]

Hi All,

I must admit I was most upset when I got home on thursday, and my room smelt of burning, upon waking my pc to shut down so I could take it apart, the PSU blew, and that was the end of it.

I went and has a fish around some old PC carcasses and found a 500Watt PSU, which is powerful enough to run my PC till my new one arrives.

However, I have started to notice that since, when loading a few Programs, the complain and close - much like VMWare is doing here:





Is there any reason for this, and how can I stop it from happening?

Thanks,