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Could it be that the cause for the problems was in 3rd party applications/drivers that were messing with the system in ways unexpected by Microsoft developers?
by jpalomaki 10y ago
Could it be that the cause for the problems was in 3rd party applications/drivers that were messing with the system in ways unexpected by Microsoft developers?
My feeling (not backed by any evidence) is that most of the BSOD bugs are actually related to faulty hardware or bad code from somebody else than Microsoft.
- digi_owl 10y agoQuite a bit of "BSOD" was the kernel going "Sorry, but all our lines as busy. Please hold". But MS decided to use the same basic framework as a honest to deity BSOD. Thus people were lead to believe the OS had gone belly up when it was actually trashing the HDD thanks to low memory, program trying to load files, and the swap file.
- justin66 10y agoVery close to 100% of the BSODs I've had since I began building my PCs in the early nineties were because of a substandard driver or piece of hardware. In the past twenty years, it's almost always been because of graphics hardware.