On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:02:42 -0800, Jason Van Cleve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ' Heard of that; but do you really consider this a good solution, > running buggy M$ software in an emulator? It's probably a bad driver > that's crashing our Winblows machine here, but the fact that my UML > document ends up fubar is really the fault of Visio, isn't it? So I'm > worried this same problem will bite me even running under Linux.
I know this is futile on a Linux UG/Anti-MS list, but perhaps you could try troubleshooting the Windows box? Your best bet would be to find someone else who is knowledgable about Windows to help you. You can stop the spontaneous reboots by going to your computer's System Properties, then to the Advanced tab, then to Startup & Recovery. Then, deselect "Automatically Restart" (or whatever it is under XP, I [legally, MSDN] run Win2003 on everything I have.) >From then on, you will get the BSOD where you can ascertain what driver is causing the crashes. Visio/any other modern app shouldn't be corrupting files like that, so it leads me to believe that its an hdd controller driver/hardware issue. This is true for any OS, even the mighty Linux, where I discovered an aggravating, obscure kernel/SATA/XFS bug that trashed any file it touched. BTW, Microsoft didn't write Visio. They recently bought it from another company. As of the latest version, about all they've done is just s/oldcompanywhosnameicantrecall/microsoft/g'd the source. /per _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
