how many Blue Screens of Death hav u caused?

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How many bsod's hav u caused?

Poll ended at Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:53 am

none at all
9
53%
a few, while programming/testing
4
24%
a few, dont know why
2
12%
lots, while programming
1
6%
lots, dont hav a clue why
1
6%
what's a bsod?
0
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Total votes: 17

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how many Blue Screens of Death hav u caused?

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i was wondering, wen my xp machine bsod'd me while i was programming in pb on a VIRTUAL MACHINE, how many bsod hav people experienced?
im mainly talking about on xp and 2000 - seeing as 9x do it a lot.....
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Re: how many Blue Screens of Death hav u caused?

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> my xp machine bsod'd me while i was programming in pb on a VIRTUAL MACHINE

Are you saying the real XP machine did the BSOD, and not the VM? Wow,
sounds like you need a better VM app... I can't see how anything running
under a VM could cause the real host machine to crash. I use Virtual PC.
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The only BSOD i've ever made where always over hardware problems, never made one due to software.
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Post by Nik »

Got one while working on ntework code my one and only caused by programming. It was more suprising and a little bit funny :lol:
Another thing was that I had to reboot after stress testing on a wrong receive rutine the tcp/ip stack was just to bloated up by the thousands of packets I sent with delay(0) :shock:
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Post by GeoTrail »

Only seen BSOD a few times in XP, and all of them was caused by either a hardware failure or 3rd party driver error. So M$ has done a good job with XP ;)

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Re: how many Blue Screens of Death hav u caused?

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PB wrote:> my xp machine bsod'd me while i was programming in pb on a VIRTUAL MACHINE

Are you saying the real XP machine did the BSOD, and not the VM? Wow,
sounds like you need a better VM app... I can't see how anything running
under a VM could cause the real host machine to crash. I use Virtual PC.
i use both virtual pc and vmware - ive had the same problems on both!
i think it was just cos of using the wrong functions....
and its has been b4 with a driver...
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