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I think my favorite part of the article is the error code in the screenshot. . . "If you call a support person, give them this info: Stop code: MANUALLY_INITIA
by johnhattan 10y ago
I think my favorite part of the article is the error code in the screenshot. . .
"If you call a support person, give them this info:
Stop code: MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH"
I'd actually like to hear that call to tech support :)
- Someone1234 10y agoNot on Windows 10, but back in the day I had a piece of software whose DRM would cause a manual BSOD if the DRM's service became unresponsive when a DRM-consumer was attempting to use it. The BSOD contained zero information about what caused it and said it was an intentionally initiated crash. Figuring out that it was this DRM garbage took quite an effort. This is roughly the 2000 or early XP era.
- johnhattan 10y agoSo basically the software was saying "Somebody might be trying to hack me. So I'm gonna take down the whole system just in case." I assume you REALLY needed that piece of software to put up with that.
- Someone1234 10y ago> I assume you REALLY needed that piece of software to put up with that. Sad part? Yes. I cannot for the life of me remember what the software did, but it had a physical dongle on the serial port (not USB, serial), I think it may have been related to HVAC control but don't quote me on that. Ultimately when I left they were still using the software on its own dedicated machine. Even then it was total junk, but it "worked," so cannot mess with that!