Edgar,
I have been thinking and trying to figure out what might have changed on my system. I know in the past that my computer has ran longer than 25 days with no problems. ( Morgan and I have had impromptu competitions to see who could keep theirs running the most days and still be stable
) In the past I have hit over 6 weeks and everything be fine, and I know that Morgan has also. At that time the screensavers still ran or I would have noticed it then. The only 2 major things that I can think of that have changed since that time is the release of Jim's fish, ( not sure if anything else changed in the code then or not ) and I am now running DX9.0b ( 4.09.0000.0902 ). Maybe that would be a place for you to start?
Current stats on my home system are as follows:
OS[Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 4 (5.0 - 2195)] Uptime[3w 5d 15h 16m 31s] CPU[1-Intel Pentium III (Cu), 994MHz, 256KB (0% Load)] Mem[Usage: 164/512MB (32.03%)_[|||-------]] Gfx[NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra @ 1600x1200 32bit 60Hz] C:[17.19/31.84GB(53%)] Network Interfaces[#1 (3Com EtherLink PCI (100Mb/s) 368.54MB In, 43.40MB Out)]
and of course none of the screensavers, MA2MD, Goldfish, Sharks, etc will run. I am currently using the 56.72 series of nVidia drivers and also have installed the 56.72 set of stereo wrappers, which work fine for me.
In addition I also ran a stripper program from here
http://www.iarsn.com/taskinfo.html which I have used before on occassion to remove processes and free up memory and see if anything was running that wasn't necessary and maybe that would start them running again. No luck, they still won't run.