How Many Times a Day Does YOUR Computer Crash

[Orangeman]

Okay Gang,

So we're supposedly the experts, so I ask the question:

How many times a day does your computer Crash?

[KINGofBLEH]

Not that my machines are perfect, but an actual "crash" (i.e., BSOD, lock-up, fatal excepion/OE, stop statement, dr. watson or memory leak) only occurs once every several months. Usually it is caused by a new app or driver that I am testing for evaluation.

[WebHead]

My computar macheen nevar locks up since I installed my anti-computar macheen crash software.

[Outcoded]

0. iBook.

[Cobra X]

Crash? Hardly ever.

[silencio]

Running XP on an Asus MB. In the last three months my machine has crashed no more than 4 times and every single time it locked up it was due to quicktime. Don't know why yet but I uninstalled it.

[Matridom]

My sytem never crahses without reason, I've recently upgraded and i've had many lockups, mainly due to findint out the limit of overclocking, I've gotten that sorted out now, so time for some serious uptime.

» uptime« best: 5wks 13hrs 36mins 25secs @ 24/2/03»

the above was just before i shut down for my hardware upgrad...

2K Server if you are wondering

[FatalException0E]

I had an issue a couple of months back where my system would hang when it hit the MBR of the boot drive. In order to boot, I had to reset BIOS. My solution was Don't reboot. Ran rebootless for over a month with no problems. The issue seems to be gone now.

[Cleetus]

Lets see, an older IBM, loads of administrator programs, a plethora of other programs I have loaded, unloaded, Win98, and I am so lazy that I haven't rebuilt it in the year and half that I have been here.

once or twice a day!!!

[Chris_MacMahon]

i recently tool linux off my machine, but i forgot to remove lilo so i had to re do my bootloader...so idecided that as i have not done a clean install in over a year on this machine, and i had a lot of Sugrar Honey Iced Tea (take the first letters), on it i decided to do a clean install.

had a problem getting the AIW video cards ironed out took a day to find the problem...

been up for 2 days 19 hours 36 minutes...


for all those that wanna know how todo that open a cmd box, and type 'systeminfo' w/out quotes....

[Stalemate]

The only time my AthlonXP 2100+ on an Asus A7N8X-DX running WinXP SP1 crashed was when a Seagate hard drive started going flakey.

No other crashes besides those.

[Ya_know]

I think the poll sucks. You need more options. Mine crashes maybe once a month, mine at work only locked up once in 6 months, until I realized that i pulled the keyboard PS2 connection out when I disconnected the UPS serial connection.

But really, you should have a once a week option and a once a month option...

[NooNoo]

Original Install Date: 15/10/2002, 14:33:33
System Up Time: 18 Days, 4 Hours, 11 Minutes, 30 Seconds


That was a power outtage.... was up for a month before that, reboots for windows updates.

[Diver01]

Running WinXP Home on an ABitKT7A-Raid Athlon 1gig. Hasnt crashed but, I power down at night and during the day when i'm at work. WHich leads me to another question, and ive heard opinions on both sides, which is best? TO keep a system up or to shut down when not in use? I believe the occasional shut down is in order. Clears the sinuses so to speak.,..

[Chris_MacMahon]

my thoughts on the power up or not...

i hear more responses i turned my computer off or i rebooted now i ca't get into windows....


in the old days i belived it mattered, today not so much...

there are some theroy's about that small pulse of power frying things in your computer when you first put it on...but i think that it's hoey...(especially if you get a decent PSU, and in practice atx is never truned off, execpt when you throw the switch on the psu, or unplug)


the one to listen to and i don't know if he is still posting is RUSLAN, he know's his psu's and crap like that.