Competer Problem

[Dark Dragon]

Okay..this morning I turned on my computer and got the dreaded BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!! (evil laugh echoes in the background)...it had the phrase containing the words Fatal Exception Error so I rebooted and to my surprise, the Video Card took it upon itself to adjust itself to the highest setting which was 1600 x 1200

So I restored the original settting, did a ScanDisk then rebooted just to make sure...so what I want to know is if anyone has an idea why this happens...I don't have any viruses...my computer is only three years old. I don't have any cheap programs in it nor did I download any programs...it is just odd sometimes.

[jeffmott]

Are there any games on your comp that you run at high resolutions? It's possible an instance of it was still running in the background, and due to the error the comp never restored your personal settings over the game's.

[Dark Dragon]

Nope. I don't play games on my computer.

[DaveSW]

Any automatic updates on your security stuff etc? (downloading junk updates etc)

[Dark Dragon]

The only updates I have are the intermittent updates to my virus protection program...that's it.

[Jona]

Originally posted by Dark Dragon
...my computer is only three years old.

Your computer is only three years old? (LOL)

Actually, do you recall anything you might've done the day before?

[Dark Dragon]

Actually, do you recall anything you might've done the day before?

Hey..my brain isn't completly shot you know...:D

Though all I did was use Flash and Fireworks yesterday...nothing special.

[Jona]

Very odd, indeed. (For once, I have nothing to tell you. :p)

[Dark Dragon]

Well...the only thing I can think of is the fact that while I have Windows 98 Second Edition I also have a 60 Gigabyte drive which isn't readily supported.

I do not trust the other Windows Platforms enough to upgrade...ater hearing about incompatibilities and other problems..I just don't want to have to sit for hours trying to get things working when I could be doing other things.

[Jona]

Or... You could just go out and buy a new computer instead of upgrading... LOL. :D

[AdamGundry]

I do not trust the other Windows Platforms enough to upgradeQuite right - stick to Windows 98. Or even better...use Linux! :D

Adam

[Dark Dragon]

I don't have to buy a computer because I built mine :D ...besides, it isn't that old y'know.

[Jona]

I like Windows XP for only a few reasons: 1, it looks cool; 2, it doesn't just "freeze" most of the time, it tells you that your computer is locked up and to press ALT + CTRL + DEL (instead of the "DREADED BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!"). It also has a lot of neat things like the system restore, that Windows 98 does not have.

Adam, you mean RedHat Linux? I think it's okay, but is... Very odd in comparison with Windows. I guess I'm just too used to Windows... (dude, I'm not like a Microsoft guy, am I? NO....!!! I think I'm turning into an MS-convert! :eek: )

[AdamGundry]

I meant any version of Linux - RedHat is one distribution, but there are many others. I personally prefer RH, but it is hard to use for non-techies/programmers, and until it becomes more user-friendly it will not be universally accepted. I do think, however, MS products will become less popular if they don't drop their prices as Open Source software improves.

I don't like Windows XP or ME because I find it awkward to manage settings precisely - the latest versions of Windows seem to hide important settings such as monitor refresh rate behind "let Windows manage this for you" checkboxes. If I wanted to let Windows manage my life, I'd give up programming and clean them for a living. :D

Adam

[Jona]

LOL. That's funny. Well, I'm not going to quarrel about "the battle of the OS's," I think that since everyone has the right to make their own OS, then we should make everything compatible and work together. Unfortunately, that's the one thing that I think MS is lacking.... :rolleyes:

[nkaisare]

My fav is WinNT. I tried to resist, unsuccessfully, all efforts to replace WinNT with Win2K on my school comp.

I have also used WinXP on our laptop. Its more stable than Win2K. But I still got the blue screen of death with my parallelized code. Of course I should cut MS some slack here as the code was meant for Mosix.
***gee i feel so intelligent writing this paragraph. I don't know a sh*t about parallelized codes... my senior just handed down to code to me;)***

I like linux... but I am not a linux buff.

[DaveSW]

I'm sure I'd like Linux, but Linux doesn't like me...

I have tried with two separate Linux install disks, 3 different hard drives, and it will not install for me. Either it reboots and keeps rebooting on the install, or it fails to recognise the hard drive size when I tell it to go ahead and partition. That's Corel Linux (free with a pc mag) and Linux Mandrake 7 - special offer at Staples!! Any ideas what I'm doin wrong?

We now have a network on Win Me. It's not too bad - the network settings are a pain in a certain part of the anatomy, but other than that, it works, it recognises all the peripherals (- even handles 3 scanners on one machine LOL ) and crashes regularly. It's interesting actually, because the machine loads all the graphic editors etc, all the html editors, and after a while when you click on the different icons to change software nothing happens... Until you right click, when it freezes. But if you minimize the ones on top, the other will work fine. Strange...