Possible bug in Windows affecting 933 MHz and faster CPUs

[Mark R]

According to Microsoft, the very fast systems sometimes power down before the contents of the large drive cache have been completely written to disk. In other words, the system shuts down before the OS can save what you were working on.

Data Loss Threatens Fast Windows Systems

 

[Adul]

Whoa. Interesting

 

[Pretender]

Wow, a problem caused by Windows being too fast. That's gotta be a first.

 

[Slacker]

Hmmm, mhz problem, or mbps problem?


<< The problem occurs only in very specific circumstances, apparently involving ATA100 hard disk drives with large physical caches. >>