I have found that most OCoD/SAoD issues I have encountered have always been due to networking.
If you search the groups for spinning arrow of death this gets mentioned a lot.
Here is a post from a while back where I was having similar problems:
There are some useful tips on the board to help resolve this.
I occasionally still have this problem & a reboot of my **bleep** Zyxel router usually fixes all SMP woes.
I am about to embark on a whole network upgrade next month so I will post an update as to how this affects the SMP.
Regards
slip
