Re: A86: Re: [OT]: Sorry, I just had to share this

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: [OT]: Sorry, I just had to share this
From: "Akshay Dhalwala" <akdjr@softhome.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:09:18 -0800
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actually, the nt blue screen give you a whole lot more info than the 2000
ones.  on nt, it tells you the stop error, and tells you every
driver/program that running at the time of the error and it dumps the
memory.  in 2000, it just says the error, and then the dumps the memory.  i
seen blue screens of all sorts for 95, NT, and 2000 [my RC2 gives me about
4-5 different ones right now. =( the ones i have are BAD_POOL_CALLER,
BAD_POOL_ERROR, some DMI_POOL error, DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE, and a
couple of other ones i can't remember. ]  the 95 just gives some odd memory
address.

akshay
http://akdjr.8m.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Re: [OT]: Sorry, I just had to share this


>
> Yes, 2000, being based on NT, does of course have the nice NT blue screen.
> Not that the info has ever been useful for anything, but if you are a
> developer it could come in handy.  And it is very nice because it has the
> option of immediately rebooting after a bluescreen, so if a service causes
> it, the box won't stay down for long.
>
> > actually the blue screen is probably the NT bluescreen with all the hex
> > dump and such, since win2k is basically a "nicened" win NT kernel.  It's
> > different from the win9x blue screen though, if i'm not mistaken.  I
> > deal with system crashes of every sort at work, so it's actually a
> > different (but still blue) screen.  And if you are run linux try and
find
> > the cross-platform system crash screensaver-it feels good to laugh at a
> > windows or mac crash, move the mouse, and watch it go away :P
> >
> >
> > > > versions for NT 3.51 (remember that 2000 is NT 5).  Needless to say,
> this
> > > > caused the system to bluescreen at boot-up before it finished
loading
> the
> > >
> > > Ah, the familiar blue screen of death.  Nice to have some continuity
> > > between OSes :)
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