XP Crash Report Log

[Kzin]

This thread is the project

Despite the Hype Windows XP and Windows 2000 crash on me quite regularly and I want to know - is this common and what types of things bring these OSs down or make systems unrelaiable (so that I can avoid them). This thread is essentially phenomenological - I'm not expecting massive debug files just pithy explainations so we can all see if there are any trend and try to make VB apps work better.

So every time XP crashes on you just post to this thread and say what happened - only post if you have a crash or lock-out - one post per incident

[Kzin]

Incident 1 XP Home on Athlon 1200; 512MB RAM

Complete system lock-up while editing Word Document.
Fresh installation

[Kzin]

Incident 2 XP Home on Duron 700; 512MB RAM

Complete system lock-up while importing (capturing) using Logitech USB screencam with PSP 7.0. Hard poweroff reboot needed. All data from other apps lost.

[Kzin]

Incident 3 XP Home on Duron 700; 512MB RAM

Complete system lock-up while starting up PSP 7.0 with Logitech USB screencam. Screencam now being removed . Hard poweroff reboot needed. No other apps running.

[DaoK]

I had to remove XP because the technician told me than Xp do not work on old BIOS. My pc is a p3 600

[DaoK]

The problem I had was than I were not able to boot in XP. That blocked all the time in the DOS startup and the screen froze each time I started to reboot.

[d4v3]

I've been runnin XP from a fresh for some time, and its had no probs at all, i could leave it running all day. And, i have 128mb RAM!

[DaoK]

I had that problem because my computer is a old p3 600 and the bios is not compatible with XP.

[BuggyProgrammer]

stupid AC97 sound card used to screw up the computer all the time.. now i have the upgrade so... i only had 2 since i formatted... usually after exiting an application... once on Internet Explorer

[Kzin]

Originally posted by DaoK
I had that problem because my computer is a old p3 600 and the bios is not compatible with XP.

That's odd because I've had XP running on a truely ancient Cyrix 266 - too old to run SuSE Linux (no 387 compat).

[vvt]

Trillian, a chat program has really crashed my XP

VB, also another crasher (one time)


http://www.trillian.cc = don't use


Now I guess I've done my part. :-)

[AutoBot]

Running a GeForce II MX 400, with 23.11 Detonator drivers I have experienced some automatic reboots with XP but only about twice running retail Counter-Strike with Firearms Mod activated while I was trying to either exit the game or get back to the menu can't really remember. But other than that small thing, XP has been the best OS I have ever had the opportunity to run even more stable than Linux or any other variation of Unix. I have been running XP Professional since the first Whistler beta and have found it to be wonderful and am now running the new Windows.NET aka Windows XP Advanced Server and it is also very solid and stable still in beta stages.

[AutoBot]

Oh and to wt's post about Trillian, pay that no attention the guys over a Trillian.cc are great guys who would shutter to think someone would say such a thing in a programmers forum. I have been running Trillian for along time and have had no crashes on XP, lets see someone else make an instant messenger that works with Yahoo, AIM, MSN, IRC, and ICQ without any problems. More than likely it wasn't the messenger that caused the crash it was probably one of the skins which are done by xml and if done improperly could "probably" cause Trillian to do something it wouldn't normally do. Not flaming you wt just hate to see a fellow programmers work get trashed because one person had a problem with it.

[Kzin]

My long standing silence on this is because XP simply failed to boot one day and is unrecoverable and so I don't have an XP machine. The Linux partition on the same machine is fine.

[AutoBot]

Hey Kzin, what was the error message you got and what had you done recently to your pc?

If your error was of the kind ntldr cannot be found this can easily be resolved with a boot disk I made. Also I found that if you install windows 2000 advanced server on a partition after you have installed xp you cannot boot, there is a resolution to this problem also issued by microsoft.

[Dillinger4]

DaoK you should see if you can get a BIOS update from your vendor. I have a gateway G6-400 and according to pc-world it is recommended that i get a new BIOS before loading XP.