Can someone enlighten me on this subject? I know the computers at the
office, working on a state network, are prone to these and it seems to be
specific to some computers then it happens. My home computer has never had
one and I don't have any friends whose computer has.

Is there a reason computers are prone to these? If I obtained a computer
that was surplus state equipment with a history of several BSODs, is the
computer likely to have an internal problems when used with no networking?
Thanks
DMSL

BSOD's are stop errors and although there are literally hundreds of
things that can cause them they are generally related to memory either
from poorly written drivers or poorly written software.

DMS Lewis wrote:
>
> Can someone enlighten me on this subject? I know the computers at the
> office, working on a state network, are prone to these and it seems to be
> specific to some computers then it happens. My home computer has never had
> one and I don't have any friends whose computer has.
>
> Is there a reason computers are prone to these? If I obtained a computer
> that was surplus state equipment with a history of several BSODs, is the
> computer likely to have an internal problems when used with no networking?
> Thanks
> DMSL

Since upgrading two months ago to Windows XP (home version) I have not had
one "Blue Screen of Death". With 98SE it happened 2 or 3 times daily.

They can all do it. Each one can be made to run without ever getting them.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I'm sure that all Windows operating systems "can be set to operate" withoug
crashing. The point is XP does not crash and you don't have to do anything
other than turn on the machine.

Well, Windows XP has the memory dumps, an upgrade from BSOD...

"DMS Lewis" <dlewisto@ruraltel.net> wrote in message
news:lrKdnV0t34nqxZ-iRTvU2Q@news.ruraltel.net...
> Can someone enlighten me on this subject? I know the computers at the
> office, working on a state network, are prone to these and it seems to
be
> specific to some computers then it happens. My home computer has never
had
> one and I don't have any friends whose computer has.
>
> Is there a reason computers are prone to these? If I obtained a computer
> that was surplus state equipment with a history of several BSODs, is the
> computer likely to have an internal problems when used with no networking?
> Thanks
> DMSL
>
>

It also can BSOD, looks a little different but the same stop error non
the less.

markh_wbpa wrote:
>
> Well, Windows XP has the memory dumps, an upgrade from BSOD...
>
> "DMS Lewis" <dlewisto@ruraltel.net> wrote in message
> news:lrKdnV0t34nqxZ-iRTvU2Q@news.ruraltel.net...
> > Can someone enlighten me on this subject? I know the computers at the
> > office, working on a state network, are prone to these and it seems to
> be
> > specific to some computers then it happens. My home computer has never
> had
> > one and I don't have any friends whose computer has.
> >
> > Is there a reason computers are prone to these? If I obtained a computer
> > that was surplus state equipment with a history of several BSODs, is the
> > computer likely to have an internal problems when used with no networking?
> > Thanks
> > DMSL
> >
> >