[can't reproduce] Hard crash while zooming

[Jive]

I totally hanged my computer and I had to make a warm reboot.
I was using heavily the zoom effect, a lot of monsters being far from me on a hill, waiting the general killing party before acting myself.
I was playing EarthZd, made by Roger Ritenour, Map09.
Suddenly I heard a "tic", then my screen freezed and I heard this "tic" twice times per seconde (more or less), like if I was entered within an infernal circle of "if" and "then". My keyboard was out of function.
For this zoom effect, I use the code already posted here, on the forum:

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// Zoom on/off
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alias zoom_in "set_zoom_out; fov 80; wait 1; fov 71; wait 1; fov 62; wait 1; fov 54; wait 1; fov 46; wait 1; fov 39; wait 1; fov 32; wait 1; fov 26; wait 1; fov 20; wait 1; fov 15; wait 1; fov 10"
alias set_zoom_out "bind w zoom_out" 
// English keyboard: change the "w" for a "z" here

alias zoom_out "set_zoom_in; fov 15; wait 1; fov 20; wait 1; fov 26; wait 1; fov 32; wait 1; fov 39; wait 1; fov 46; wait 1; fov 54; wait 1; fov 62;  wait 1; fov 71;  wait 1; fov 80; wait 1; fov 90" 
alias set_zoom_in "bind w zoom_in" 
// English keyboard: change the "w" for a "z" here

bind w zoom_in // Will be automatically changed for "z" on French keybords
               // English keyboard: change the "w" for a "z"

[Doomguy0505]

Try:

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alias zoom_in "fov 45; rebind zoom_out"
alias zoom_out "fov 90; rebind zoom_in"
bind z zoom_in

[TheDarkArchon]

And how exactly would that help?

[Graf Zahl]

Are you sure it was caused by the zoom? Can you reproduce it in any way? This looks more like a random system lock up to me. I can't reproduce it.