A friend of mine here has had his win-2000 pro machine back at his home country run for more than than 2 months now as an ftp server.. thats about 60 days right? its still up n running..
From: Ahmad Abu Gharbieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [JoLUG-General] Will Windows work continuously for more than 49.7days?
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:58:30 +0200
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>hey guys i got this forward 2day.. is this true??
>
>Original message:
>
>Will Windows work continuously for more than 49.7 days?
>
>Here is a bit of information, which may surprise you all. Windows
>crashes automatically if you don't switch off the machine
>for 49.7 Days. Microsoft accepts this. Do you know why? If not read this.
>
>In Windows the Virtual Machine Manager (here after referred as VMM) is
>responsible for creation, execution, monitoring and termination
>of virtual machines. This VMM, which is a 32 bit, protected mode
>operating system entity, provides a number of system services at
>chip level. One of these services is "Get_System_Time". This
>particular service loads the EAX register with the time in
>milliseconds since Windows started on that machine. This service is
>accurate to 1 ms. EAX is a 32 bit register in Intel 386 Processor
>onwards.
>
>So the maximum number of milliseconds it can hold is
>(232)-1 = 4294967295 milliseconds = 4294967.295 seconds = 71582.79
>minutes = 1193 hours = 49.7 days
>
>So after 49.7 days the EAX resets to zero. Most of the Drivers use
>this Time Service to keep track of the Timeout of various
>services they provide. So after 49.7 days the drivers cannot use the
>get_System_Time function of VMM and they crash taking the OS along
>with
>
>
>
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