The BSOD is designed to protect your system from further damage (even
though the damage is usually already done at this point.) Best thing
to do is diagnose the problem right away and remove the crud.
If that means uninstalling WinXP, I think you had better, you can't
understand what to do to fix it. Its not really all that hard. There
is no perfect system, there never will be.
This is not really Linux advocacy. I think you should stick to
praising the open source and the fully customizable nature of Linux and
stop making yourself look like a fool. Linux has some nice features,
but Linux is far from "problem free" like you expect Windows XP to be.
Yours truly,
n00b
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ John Bailo ] on Thursday 29 June 2006 17:04 \__
>
> > Wintrolls are fond of saying that a lot of what COLAdvocates complain
> > about are based on experience from years ago with win95 and win98.
> >
> > Well, last night, at a friend's place, we were streaming some video
> > clips on his brand new, XP powered, HP laptop with an EVDO (wireless
> > broadband via cell network) modem and -- Boom, the Blue Screen of Death.
>
>
> Over Easter I used an XP laptop (not mine) and I can attest to the same
> experience. Fatal BSoD. At the worst of times, too. Microsoft must have
> 'innovated' the idea of auto-save, but their 'windnow manager' and Web
> browser haven't got that feature incorporated, even as a simple plugin.
>
>
> > Now, admittedly, I haven't seen one for a while (well, a few months) but
> > there it was in living color (blue). So, we started trying to analyze
> > the machine.
> >
> > First off we noticed that although he was set to receive automatic
> > updates from Microsoft, he didn't have the latest Windows installer. He
> > only found that out when he went to the Windows Update to manually get
> > the software, and found that not having the latest installer meant he
> > wasn't getting all the updates (the whole Windows update process is
> > seriously borked).
> >
> > Then I asked him about his EVDO driver for Windows. He couldn't find
> > the updates on the website and had to call the manufacturer and then
> > they seemed a bit edgy on the drivers and the whole problem (we suspect
> > it may be the cause of the blue screens).
> >
> > In any case, whether or not XP is responsible, or the "third party" --
> > as a total system, where does he turn? My advice, is to get a better
> > product and spend more money on the hardware.
> >
> > In installed Prime95 to run a stress test and left it at that.
>
> This post remidns me of the following, which I saw just hours ago:
>
> http://www.freedomgeneration.com/index.php/archives/2006/06/29/what-happens-when-windows-xp-is-used-for-a-shopping-centre-kiosk-instead-of-linux/
>
> What happens when Windows XP is used for a
> Shopping Centre Kiosk instead of Linux
>
> I see this in ATM's sometimes. No la-la land though. Just plain blue.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
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