The NT kernel is (was...) one of the best written pieces of code out there when it was first developed. Unfortunately now that everything from Internet Explorer to Windows Media Player has its own hooks in to the thing, and with every major release they push more and more code into kernel mode for "performance reasons", it's becoming just as much a mess as the Windows 9x line got to be...
The only way bugs get fixed is if you report them. Maybe you should submit a bug describing your hardware and boot messages so the kernel dudes can get to fixing it for test7...
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The NT kernel is (was...) one of the best written pieces of code out there when it was first developed. Unfortunately now that everything from Internet Explorer to Windows Media Player has its own hooks in to the thing, and with every major release they push more and more code into kernel mode for "performance reasons", it's becoming just as much a mess as the Windows 9x line got to be...
The only way bugs get fixed is if you report them. Maybe you should submit a bug describing your hardware and boot messages so the kernel dudes can get to fixing it for test7...