Just out of interest what is the longest anyone has had either win 98/SE/ME running without a reboot?. I'll start with about 9 months and another one must be about 2 years, can anyone beat that.
i leave mine on all the time at work.. i have to reboot about once a week or it starts running like a pig my win2k box is fine. my iMac is fine. i thought windows 9x had a bug where it hangs after 49 days whatever you do... i'll dig the article out
The machine in question is used to display train times, and every morning its still running without a reboot as far as I know ( I suppose i could double check); but it's in an out of the way place which means its a pain if it does go wrong. When it was first installed we had to go to reboot it @ least 2 times a day.
oh that's nothing there are some hilarious TechNet Q articles for instance, the 18 page document outlining all the hotfixes to windows 2000 SINCE service pack 2... http://support.microsoft.com/support/servicepacks/windows/2000/win2000_post-sp2_hotfixes.asp with such choice fixes as.... Migrating UNIX Users to Active Directory May Not Work (read: it's shagged) Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords Memory Leak in Keyboard and Mouse Class Drivers When You Unplug and Plug In USB Keyboard or Mouse (crash your win2k server by plugging your mouse in repeatedly) Stop 0x0000001E in Win32k.sys When Using Animated Mouse Pointers (Blue Screen Of Death for using animated mouse pointers) "Stop 0x00000050" Error Message When You View Files on a DVD (and DVD's) DNS Manager May Damage Certain SOA Values in RNAME Field (read: DNS Manager can completely shag your server's networking) Multifunction USB Device Cannot Transfer 4 KB or Larger Files "Stop 0x0000000A" Stop Code on Stressed Servers (read: your server will die if it's busy) (but we knew that already ) Computer Hangs After You Connect Multiple IEEE 1394 Devices (yay! plug and pray!) Security Policy May Become Corrupted (OMG!) An Impersonating Thread May Revert to the Process Security Context After an Index Server Query (OMG!! x2 |-|4><0R heaven!) have fun with win2k SP2
Damn, and i just finished downloading SP2 as well. Any idea why the official drivers for Win2k Voodoo 3 disable hibernation whilst the drivers that come with Win2k allow it?
