On Sunday 11 August 2002 08:57 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: > I doubt that disassembling the driver code for known-terminal bits of > hardware will help much, since I strongly suspect (based on the > never-assume-malice-when-incompetence-will-explain-it principle) that > what's happening very often is that devices are being fully initialised by > Windows in a certain sequence, but not being completely shut down.
You're right. Actually, this was touted as one of Win2k's features: it's supposed to quickly shut down. This means that it doesn't shut down any hardware properly, and instead relies on initializing it in some magic sequence for it to work right. Nevertheless, it still manages to crash during shutdown (just use a win2k system for a month or two, and you'll see that it will hang instead of shutting down/rebooting). You should definitely do a hard reset when switching systems. Often, there are plug and play features that need to get reset to a clean state, and many other issues as well. It's not very hard to do on most systems, so you should do it. -- -- Igor
