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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Tue Aug 7 22:04:32 2007, in response to Re: Max Deadlock Obtained, posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Aug 5 06:05:24 2007. A "Program has performed an illegal operation" message means the offending app got ejected for pissing off the OS. It does not mean the OS is falling over.User-mode applications on NT/2k/XP/Vista simply cannot crash the OS by themselves, if the system's components are on the HCL. They are pretty much free to crap themselves and be ejected as much as they care to be. The only BSODs I've encountered over the last 15 years on over 10,000 machines at my clients have been due to hard failure of the system boot drive or defective/substandard video or network cards, shoddy drivers for writing to DVD drives. I never went the Win9x route, so I can't speak to that platform. The only other thing that could be wrong is you managed to get your system compromised and there's malware in there hosing things on you. IAE, make sure your hardware and software are certified for XP, do a clean boxgen from original distribution media, a good AV program running, and never, ever install or launch something from a source you cannot verify as trustworthy. (And, before people tell me Macs don't have trouble like this, my other half, who's a rabid Machead, has had nothing but a living hell with the box locking up at least 3 times a day for the last 2 months. Go figure.) |
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