On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:18:11 -0700, Tom Plunket wrote:
Getting off topic but a few comments.
TP> I have completely different experience, both at home and at work.
TP> My Win98 machines seem to run forever, but my WinNT machine at home
TP> and the NT machines of the artists around me, running Photoshop and
TP> 3D Studio all day, crash every day.
An NT system that crashes once a day is ailing. Something is
wrong. Hardware or drivers.
TP> Of course, I'm the type who likes to restart my Windows machines
TP> almost daily anyway. My Linux firewall at home has recently reached
TP> an uptime greater than any Windows machine is capable of (does anyone
TP> know if they fixed the 47-day crash built into Windows for W2k?), but
TP> then we're talking real operating systems that were not designed by
TP> the almighty dollar.
Win95 had such a limit and it has since been fixed. NT4 and now
Win2k never did have such a limit. I've experienced uptimes beyond 47
days using both NT and Win2k. I haven't yet experienced a crash with
Win2k. I had crashes with NT4 which were quite dramatic and all were
hardware or driver related which when fixed led to great stability for
me. I haven't experienced uptimes like this with either win9x or OS/2,
though I've never had daily crashes on a routine basis, meaning it's an
accepted norm, running any OS.
TP> A power conditioner/backup is also a good thing,
I've seen this improve Win9x stability by a wide margin. I've
also seen a CPU power supply change convert a Win9x system that crashed
about three times a day to one that stopped crashing. Since it was
powered down each day for the night, it simply stopped crashing and this
has been for about the last 4 months. A bad CPU fan fixed caused a
similar scenario on my dads win9x system. He was having a lot of crashes
and lockups.
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