QuickTime .MOV + Toshiba + Vista = BSOD

Question Guy writes "Apple QuickTime is involved in a troubling problem that doesn't seem to be addressed by any of the major software and hardware manufacturers involved. On Toshiba machines, such as the Protege Tablet M400s, with Windows Vista installed, opening a locally stored QuickTime .MOV causes instant bluescreen. All other video functions seem to be working in other video playback types — even streaming .MOVs work — and there is little to no 'buzz' on the Net that might push any of the parties to investigate or to play nice together (Microsoft for Vista, Intel for the GMA945 chipset, Toshiba for their custom tablet software, Apple for QuickTime). Help, anyone?"

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BSOD so easily?

[LinuxInDallas]

I'm no Vista expert (obviously) but I find it odd that applications can apparently can easily cause a BSOD on Vista. I mean you would think that nothing short of a crash of the core OS would cause a BSOD.

Re:I think you answered your question already.

[Malc]

Using up all available graphics resources will cause things to fail. If the desktop environment crashes because it can't get enough resources (be it X11 or Windows) then all apps tend to go down with resultant data loss. From my perspective as a desktop (not server) user, there's no difference.

The truth is...

[tulcod]

Vista = BSOD