How many times have you blue screened?

or 3 systems up and running at the same time

in other news, my newly recieved media center is currently freezing. no bluescreen, but it doesn't do anything right now anymore (i tried to connect it to the winhomeserver..)

 

I wonder when my workplace will wise-up and put Vista or Windows 7 on our machines. Windows XP just blue-screened on me yet again here (SP3 is installed too).

 

I have XP here at work as well. It blue-screened on me yesterday while I was working with Solidworks (not doing anything else, just Solidworks). There was some kind of memory corruption or something.

 

i hate workspaces for not spending the money and time to do the updates (and let the it guys have fun exploring how they can use and abuse the new systems the best. learning the new group policies, software deployments, etc is quite a nice thing to do).

xp at work is terrible. always paging to disk while even having enough ram (sometimes). terrible. crashing quite often, and very slow.

i love my vistas, they're just flawless.

but i possibly try out some win7 installations during the next two weeks. i just don't have a technet account, so i would need someone providing me disks

 

on my old HP i blue screened what had to have been around 15 times before its ultimate demise.

not one bsod on my new asus though.

 

Not to mention keeping their own systems updated! Sure, I'm running SP3, but every NO updates since SP3 (nor any of the Office 2007 updates) have been installed on this computer. The IT guys configure every computer to never check for updates, and there is no update server from which they can update all the computers at once.

 

during my 4 years apprenticeship, i've learned so much stuff by setting up a windows network with my 2 other it guys. it was an amazing project (we switched to xp, back then). all win2003 servers, all winxp, using vmware for the win98-requiring application, setting up group policies the way the user will like it (a.k.a. not lock everything down, but make stupid faults for the users impossible).

we set up the wsus for the updates, used a swiss product for software deployment, and sometimes worked over months for an individual package to deploy. we just made sure that the endproduct is as flawless and as userfriendly as possible. nowadays, with vista or win7, i'd love to do that again. sadly, companies don't care anymore about a "perfect it". they just want it to be cheap, and good enough. which is, not good enough to satisfy anyone, actually.

edit: i recently made a study on how much time daily could get saved by waiting for pc's to boot up and all, by switching to the most expensive intel ssd's for consumers (80gb, our current setup has only 40gb..). by going about the average earnings of each users, and around 15minutes saved a day, i got numbers for my company, that said, after 3 months, the ssd have been worth their payment, after that, it's only gain.

and users would be happy, having a fast system.

sadly, i'm not at a place in our company with the power to really get such thing done, then..

 

desktop machine i lost count ( even kernels panic of ubuntu). on this laptop i believe 3 total:
1 i dont remember.
2 yesterday 1 from trying to figure out why my "mybook" wouldn't eject, the other is when i wake it up from sleep and inserted a probably faulty usbdrive

 

I have a Dell Studio 1537 which I received for xmas in 2008 and it hasn't blue screened a single time yet.

 

My Acer 5684WLMi running XP since I purchased it brand new in 2006 has yet to give me a BSOD.

And the only playing I do on it(other than games) is visiting NBR from time to time.

Otherwise it runs pretty much around 15 hours a day without any hastles.

Maybe I am just lucky??? Or maybe Acer did a really good job with XP on this specific Lappy. I have only ever seen questions etc. twice on this Forum regarding problems with the 5684WLMi. And one of them was mine.

 

At least twice every time I install Vista - on NINETY NINE percent every time. After it gets to 99% the first two tries, blue screen, on the third, works perfect.
Other than that, once on Windows XP.

 

This sounds very, very, very strange.

Maybe you could find out what the error message says and list your hardware?

It sounds impossible... which makes me wonder, why does it happen?

 

I'm not so sure why it happens - though, this is a vanilla Vista disc without SP1 or 2.

 

Still strange - the fact that its a Vista Disc without SP1 or 2 shouldn't be the cause.

My first guess was damaged hardware - but then the same should happen in XP...

Another guess is ancient outdated no longer supported hardware - but then this would barely run Vista anyway and I couldn't see why you'd try that...

 

Maybe you should create a slipstream copy of the disc containing SP1 or SP2... Here's how you can create your own slipstreamed copy.

 

Vista runs. and XP installs fine. So does linux.
I would slipstream SP2, but I don't have a DVD burner.

 

Do you at least have a USB thumb drive with a size at least 4 GB? If so, you could perform a slipstream, then with the finished ISO you could extract the files and simply copy them to the USB stick. Then, in your system's BIOS, change it so that the USB stick is the first disk it checks on bootup. Installation should be quicker too off of the USB stick.

First check that your system supports booting from the USB stick though.

 

I boot from USB a lot to install linux. I might try it, but I'll probably just use Win7.