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Longhorn: Fewer BSODs, More RSODs
Jan Theofel writes "Windows Loghorn will present you less BSOD. Joi Ito reports that Windows Longorn will get additional ROSD (red screen of death) for 'really bad errors.' So you will get less BSOD but some new RSOD. You can find a ROSD screenshot in a virtual machine in his weblog entry."
Dont forget NetworkMirror :)
. ito.com/archives/2005/05/07/bsod_upgrades_to_rsod_ in_longhorn.html
http://www.networkmirror.com/adYJGbG8ajC3f55y/joi
If you are seeing BSODs almost daily, you either have faulty hardware or some seriously buggy drivers. Honestly folks, XP, and even 2000, BSOD very rarely.
Exactly. I have never seen my XP machine at home BSOD, even when the video card was failing to the point that it was adding random horizontal lines across the display.
At work, I saw 2000 BSOD on several servers when we applied an MS hotfix that conflicted with some sort of secret kernel patch they'd given us a few years previously for those same machines.
I saw 2k bluescreen one other time, when a workstation had a zip drive and the user installed drivers for it from 1997 or so.
Other than that, the only time I've seen it happen is if I make an OS image on one machine and then try and use it on another with different hardware. That's still stupid, but at least I know how to avoid it.
This is in an environment with close to 1000 Windows servers and about 25,000 Windows workstations.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
No, it restarts the machine.
(If it could just restart explorer, that means it's recoverable and in user-space. I.e., not a BSoD, which happens in kernel-space. After all, explorer is just a shell.)
And yes the restarting is a pain, since then you have no idea what just happened. Even worse is when it happens on boot - yay restart loop. AFAICT, checking the event log does not give all the information available in the BSoD.