RE: Linux vs Blue Screen of Death

["Bibbs, Christopher" <Christopher_Bibbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Funny you mention that.  I got a bad scanner driver from UMAX that caused
the system to crash during boot up.  The only way to fix things was to boot
into safe-mode and remove the offending file (udnt.sys) at which point the
system booted and the scanner worked.  The stupid part was that until I
booted into safe mode it had gotten itself into a loop of booting up,
scanning the disk, crashing, and restarting itself.  I don't know how many
times it did it, but really, what did it think it was going to accomplish?

Christopher

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bridleman [mailto:jbridleman@voyager.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 3:57 PM
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Subject: Re: Linux vs Blue Screen of Death


At 02:47 PM 4/6/00 -0400, you wrote:

I had a bad video driver on a Windows95 machine this morning. I updated the 
Dial-Up Networking and when I had to reboot it came up with a "Windows 
Protection Error. Please reboot the computer". Switching to a standard VGA 
driver allowed it to boot.

When those things happen it's a great lead in for discussing Linux! I've 
been able to demo Linux numerous times because of the BSOD!

>One problem (not the only one :)  is the way NT handles video drivers.
>If you get a bad video driver (written by the OEM?) the OS crashes.
>
>If you get a bad video driver on Linux, X windows crashes, not the OS.
>
>I've seen many of an NT box become more stable by replacing the video
>card by a different, better supported, video card.
>
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