World's Biggest Windows Crash Topic

[Windowscrash]

OK, a very simple one for you... <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

Whenever Windows 9x/NT/2000 crashes add a reply to this thread and give the error message you got (If you can rememeber)

Let's see how long it takes for this to become a hot topic <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[Wildman6971]

Just wanted to say that I have been running ME since October of Last year on 3 different machines same OS not clean installs. Originally it was..but when I changed machines I pulled the HD and kept on trucking.

The OS has not crashed on me. Using Norton AV has caused more problems than anything else. <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">

[Imon Fyre]

had ME freeze solidly on me earlier today

[MacGyver]

To be honest, most of the crashes aren't Windows fault - it's some crappy third party app!

For example, a couple of weeks ago I was having horrible problems with my computer. Without warning, if I pressed the SHIFT key (yes, that's right, the SHIFT key!) the comp would BSOD, and if I pressed SHIFT again it would lock up solid. The cause: a bad antivirus signature update. I reinstalled the AV update and everything is smooth sailing ever since.

[tyremanb]

win98 kicked me out of combat flight sim today, and was at the desktop repeating about 1 second of WW2 sound over and over and over and over......

anybody else get that evil looping sound prob?

[DANIMAL]

haven't had a crash in over a year, just a couple of freeze ups from the Acsess Manager that comes with Sympatico high speed.

[tyremanb]

thats quite impressive danimal. wot OS and h/ware u running to be so stable?

[MacGyver]

Hey DANIMAL, do yourself a favour: dump that crappy Access Manager and use RASPPPoE instead. http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/

It beats Access Manager with a stick.

[DANIMAL]

Originally posted by Mutant Grabble:
<STRONG>thats quite impressive danimal. wot OS and h/ware u running to be so stable?</STRONG>

Windows 98SE with all the updates/Patches
I.E 5.5 up until the 6.0 Beta came out.
Running a 433C overcloked to 567C ona ASUS P2-99 MB with 96MB Ram and a ASUS V3800 32MB Video.
the problems I have normally had are from Corupt Downloads and like I said above Acsess Manager.

I keep My system Spotless, Constatly Cleaning the temp files internet files ,cookies, recycle , programs npot being used get rid of them until I need them, Registry Cleaned every time I install or Uninstall anything, Nothing in the Start up and Zone alarm the only thing on the task bar.
I think I've been Lucky too.

[DANIMAL]

Originally posted by MacGyver:
<STRONG>Hey DANIMAL, do yourself a favour: dump that crappy Access Manager and use RASPPPoE instead. http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/

It beats Access Manager with a stick.</STRONG>

I'll try that again the last time I downloaded the net was lagging and the files I downloaded were not present so my computer told me.

[[NeoZeeD]]

i have windows millenuim edition and i get error messages and crashes almost all the time. i miss windows 98SE , i think i might go back to it <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

[DANIMAL]

Originally posted by AbSoLuTeZeR0:
<STRONG>i have windows millenuim edition and i get error messages and crashes almost all the time. i miss windows 98SE , i think i might go back to it <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

I have win 2k and 98 dual booted. there a better solution.

[KINGofBLEH]

A while back I was running WinME on a PII350/128MB system and I upgraded to IE 6.0 public beta. BIG MISTAKE. Completely hosed mediaplayer 7. Starting getting frequently BSOD and lock-ups when online and playing mp3s at the same time. Then the thing wouldn't boot. Tried the system restore, no luck. Ended up reloading win86se/IE 5.5.

Another time I was installing win95b from scratch on an old IBM PC350 p133/32mb. Fdisk/format went fine. Did a scandisk for bad sector b/c it was an old disk - no probs. Started installing the OS and got through the setup script with no major problems. Even used 3com 509b nic b/c 95 has the drivers pre-loaded. After the first reboot setup attempts to load the drivers for the S3 virge onboard vid card and the damned thing hangs. Attempt to reboot praying for safe mode and it hangs again in the same place. Tried several more reboots with no luck. Fdisk/format/scandisk/install again with the same prob. Tried several 95 CDs and all did the same thing (Still have not completely figured this one out. Think maybe a bad vid card or MOBO.)

Have many, many other stories to tell but these are most recent. Not enough time to tell the all.


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[Windowscrash]

Originally posted by DANIMAL:
<STRONG>

I have win 2k and 98 dual booted. there a better solution.</STRONG>

I do that as well <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">

[Papa Smurf]

Heres another crash [if u can call it a crash] for your Win2k list.

The keyboard just stopped responding, everything else worked frine apart from the damm keyboard, Several reboots later they keyboard still locks up after 5-10 mins of use.

The only thing I found out was that just before they keyboard gets losts an event log is displayed informing me that my e: drive is nearly full. I freed some space on e: and its cured the problem.

Strange!!!!!!!!