[PLUG] Linux crashes Windows!

John Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Feb 21 17:19:48 UTC 2006


On 21 Feb 2006, at 8:37, AthlonRob wrote:

> It was, indeed, entirely on the Windows computer.  My guess would be
> it was due to the high traffic flowing either over USB or your network
> from the copy.  Next time you get a BSOD on Windows, try and see if
> there is a driver associated with it.. you should be able to see the
> BSOD information in the Windows Event Viewer if you want to diagnose
> the one you already had.

Ah, Event Viewer. Why didn't I think of that?

OK, the previous message prior to the crash was several days ago. 
Then this morning at 7:55 there are messages from the reboot. But 
nothing prior to the reboot saying what was going on at the time of 
the crash. However, the first message on the reboot says:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e 
(0xc0000005, 0x804373f6, 0x00028892, 0x00000001). Microsoft Windows 2000 
[v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini022106-01.dmp. 

So I opened the Minidump file in Notepad, but it's just a bunch of gibberish. No 
human words in it.

Something else you said makes me suspicious -- "over USB." When I built this 
computer it just had USB 1.1 on the motherboard, which Windows 2000 was 
happy to configure and use. But a couple years ago I added a USB 2.0 + Firewire 
card. Originally I used the drivers that came from the manufacturer, but after adding 
SP2 I was able to switch to Windows drivers for it. The external disk I was copying 
from is on one of the ports on that card. I'll just bet that's where the problem is.

OK, I think what I will do is ignore the problem for the time being. If it's the driver for 
that card, there may be a better driver, but it may also be a hardware problem on 
the card. If it ever happens again I will carefully write down everything on the 
BSoD before rebooting. Then maybe I can tell for sure where the problem lies. I 
don't have time to spend hours googling all over the net looking for solutions when 
I'm not sure that's where the problem lies in the first place. 

Thanks for the response. It's interesting that I find out more about Windows from 
Linux people than from Windows forums. :)



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