Ian Burrell wrote: > setup.exe is repeatedly crashing Windows 2000 on my machine. It > happens repeatedly right after selecting the mirror. It only happens > when other programs are accessing the network or when other cygwin > programs like rxvt are running. It is a hard crash; the machine > resets itself and doesn't display a BSOD.
Isn't this an option? On my WinXP its: Control Panel > System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery > Settings > System Failiure > Automatically Restart Regardless, a user application shoudn't be able crash the entire system under 2k. It sounds like setup is triggering a bad device driver. It might not be a bad idea to download the latest drivers for that network card. > It does save .dmp files in > c:\winnt\minidump. > > This is new behaviour; I run setup lots of times on this machine with > no problems. There are two things that have changed recently: updated > to Windows 2000 SP3, and installed a Linksys phoneline network card. > I am pretty sure I had the same version of setup.exe (2.249.2.5) and > cygwin1.dll (1.3.12-2) for successful updates before making those > changes. Max.
