PT is killing my comp

[craigthedeac]

I have a IBM Thinkpad R52, never have had any problems with it.

Right now PT is shutting down my computer (or totally freezing it) whenever I try to do something on PT. This includes: bringing up my stats, compacting a database (which I did not too long ago), importing just a few files, whatever. It works for a while, I know that it goes kinda slow and appears to freeze normally, but then my laptop will actually shut off or freeze for good.

Any idea what is causing this? I know my computer should be able to handle this, it isn't even working when I ONLY have PT running. I have like 40 GB of free memory on my comp. I only have one database, and while it is big, I wouldn't consider it huge by 2p2 standards.