In another post I asked if my MPEG-2 codec/driver/filter (or whatever it is called) could have been corrupted because my system kept closing down Vegas after a few minutes of rendering to MPG.

One reaction to this question was to clean the CPU-fan as it might be reason for too high a temperature in CPU.
As it happens this shouldn't be the case because I clean the fan regularly.

However.

I installed a temperature monitor on my system (found here http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ ) and could see that the CPU temperature went up and up and up beyond 60 degrees celcius where it started to become unstable.

I took of the side of my pc case and hung a second fan from the frame so that it sucked air out from the approximate area of the CPU.

The temperature in the case is now 26 celcius and the CPU stays around 40-43 degrees celcius.

My project is rendering as I write and it has reached 53% where it rarely came further than 12%.

Obviously the temperature advice was "the dogs bollocks" and I'm as happy as can be.

Thank you again Grazie and Farss.

Ayath

p.s.
The non-english people will learn that "bollocks" is a swear word just as the American "Bullsh*t" whereas "the dogs bollocks" means that it is great, fantastic or really good.
You can actually say to Queen Elizabeth II, that her dress is "the dogs bollocks" and not be rude.