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did somebody actually make that?
Like a cutdown keboard, or is it just a fakey thing?
What is the blue screen of death?
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did somebody actually make that?
Like a cutdown keboard, or is it just a fakey thing?
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My computer runs XP, I don't know if it can have a BSOD.
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What exactly does a BSOD do to your computer?
GilesGuthrie
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It reports the settings of certain important values immediately prior to the fatal error, but this information is probably only of use to developers. It also tells you what the error was, and which file caused it, which can give you a reasonable heads-up on how to fix the problem.
Finally (and this is the bit that takes the time), it writes the entire contents of memory to disk, for the purposes of debugging. You can find this file at c:\winnt\memory.dmp.
Originally posted by Tom M
I wouldn't call it unlucky... let's just say I've been known to run more things than you can shake a stick at.
Fair enough.
(Although I usually run Photoshop, Visual Interdev, Outlook, Trillian, and at least one copy of IE at the same time on my P2-550 at work.
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GilesGuthrie
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Originally posted by AltF8
Wow, you're unlucky.
Been running XP for months, 0 BSoDs.
Win2K Pro at home: 2 years, 4 months, 1 BSOD (on day of delivery when I installed a rogue driver).
Win2K Pro at work: 4 months, 0 BSOD.
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Originally posted by AltF8
Fair enough.
(Although I usually run Photoshop, Visual Interdev, Outlook, Trillian, and at least one copy of IE at the same time on my P2-550 at work.
Every once in a while video encoding takes it down with oddball Avi codecs, and sound card updates are usually hell, but I've been known to have MS office, GTP (or other websites) in a window, MSN conversations, Quake 3/ RTCW type games windowed, Newsbin downloading, and someone FTPing off my HD.
I think it's MSN that puts me over the top.
GilesGuthrie
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Windows 98 doesn't handle its resources properly, whereas the later OSes (including NT4) do, which means that 98 is prone to crashing in unexpected circumstances, usually down to the fact that you're running conflicting apps, or apps which are resource hogs.
Also, it's the same with hardware, which is much better managed under 2000/XP. 98 had USB support, but since 98 is basically Windows 95, and 95 had to have USB support 'bolted on' at OSR2, it's never really worked. Plus 98 cannot do interrupt sharing, which is another huge problem for the OS.
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Never had this problem thankfully... Don't use PC's
But i've seen it happen on a few of my mates PC's some of which have resulted in totaly reformating the HD which can take up a lot of time then having to reinstall all the drivers and OS etc
Sod that
But i've seen it happen on a few of my mates PC's some of which have resulted in totaly reformating the HD which can take up a lot of time then having to reinstall all the drivers and OS etc
Sod that
GilesGuthrie
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Originally posted by Eddy
I thought my old computer (Windows 98 - plain 98) had a bug or something because it kept on getting BSODs...and now I find out that it was because 98 is ****house ata handling its resources.
Win2K Pro kicks most arse. Yet to try XP.
Ah, well, that's because you're talking to an experienced professional!
I agree with your second statement. I believe 2K Pro to be the best OS that Microsoft have done in a long time, although I admit that my 2hrs on XP when it absolutely WOULD NOT do what I wanted it to, because it thought it knew better, didn't really help!
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Well, people of Microsoft say that XP is stable, I do not know if this is true or not.
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My friend has XP Pro and he drove it into the ground and got the blue screen. He was tryin to edit some video from our class senior trip. :reallyodd
says it's the only time he's gotten it though
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It's kind of interesting hearing this from the other side of the fence, per se. 
In the Mac community, the blue screen of death is slightly different. Instead of containing an error log, it's just a screen that comes up instead of the desktop that is, well, all blue.
Actually, it's a lot worse for an OSX user to have one than a Windows user... usually, one only gets it due to a major perephriel (sp?) problem, or, in most cases, because of hacks.
However, most OSX users will just see the occasional application crash (usually IE), and the rare kernel crash (which entails nothing more than a restart).
In the Mac community, the blue screen of death is slightly different. Instead of containing an error log, it's just a screen that comes up instead of the desktop that is, well, all blue.
Actually, it's a lot worse for an OSX user to have one than a Windows user... usually, one only gets it due to a major perephriel (sp?) problem, or, in most cases, because of hacks.
However, most OSX users will just see the occasional application crash (usually IE), and the rare kernel crash (which entails nothing more than a restart).
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So they don't show the bombs any more?
(lol, I had totally forgotten about those... I had to think for a minute on what you were talking about 
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GilesGuthrie
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They were certainly much more rare on a Mac than on the Atari ST, which would bomb quite frequently. But perhaps that had more to do with the software I was running, which was sometimes less than strictly legit!
I still remember it on the ST: Two bombs was a page fault (memory access error), and three bombs was Illegal Instruction.
I still remember it on the ST: Two bombs was a page fault (memory access error), and three bombs was Illegal Instruction.
