Windows borked itself again!!

[LordRaiden]

Well, again Microsoft has reinforced my hatred of windows again today. Windows decided that it just wanted to go take a total dirt nap for absolutely no reason. Restores did no good. So I had to format and completely rebuild windows. Yet my Freebsd partition has been running flawless for over 2 years.

What it would do is it would start booting, get to a random point during loading, then hard lock. I even stripped the machine to no effect. I would then boot into safe mode just fine, restore the windows directory and registry from up to 2 weeks back and reboot. All would be fine till I rebooted again, then we're right back where we started from. Plus my audigy was giving me fits with the drivers and I was getting hardware conflicts and all kinds of fun garbage. Reload windows and now suddenly she's singing like a jaybird. Go figure. Grr.

Man, why can't MS make an OS as stable as Linux? Ok, enough ranting. I'll shut up now. (PS. My uptime since my last reinstall was just barely 2 months. Less than the average of 5 months)

 

[FoBoT]

well, i guess you get what you pay for



oh wait


um,

er,

nevermind

 

[Anubis]

notcgh another one up for MS

this happens to me alot also. hate it so much

 

[LordRaiden]

Yes, I can't wait for Freebsd, or linux in general to support everything I need to do 100% and then I'm gonna have a ritual burning of all of my Microsoft install CD's and manuals.

 

[Antoneo]

Over a year with Win2k here and heavy usage (installed uninstalled everything to my delight) with no problems.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Antoneo
Over a year with Win2k here and heavy usage (installed uninstalled everything to my delight) with no problems.

Coming up on 1 year with this machine with no problems like that, but I'm running WinXP Pro.

Maybe it's all in how you properly service your software?

 

[BatmanNate]

My FreeBSD, SME, and Win2k AS boxes all have slightly better uptime than my XP box (they are up 100% of the time when my workstation running XP Pro requires an occasional reboot) although I attribute this to the fact that I run a myriad of different applications on my workstation, including games etc, where as the other machines are just servers constantly at their respective tasks. None of the OS's are as bad stability wise as I've seen with Windows 9x however.

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: Antoneo
Over a year with Win2k here and heavy usage (installed uninstalled everything to my delight) with no problems.

Coming up on 1 year with this machine with no problems like that, but I'm running WinXP Pro.

Maybe it's all in how you properly service your software?

Yea, I'm just over one year now on this install, and my system is still flawless. I use it 5-7 hours aday.

 

[LordRaiden]

Probubly because I'm always fiddling with hardware and software all the time because my hardware keeps catching PMS.

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Probubly because I'm always fiddling with hardware and software all the time because my hardware keeps catching PMS.

Sounds like poor hardware choices/drivers is causing a lot of your problems.

<-- Win2k heavily used for business and personal use, last install nealry a year ago, going strong.

 

[LordRaiden]

Actually I have almost all brand new hardware. Software/drivers would be more believable because I've had issues with my ATI cards fighting my Audigy card like two cats fighting over a mouse. SO software issues would not be surprising in the slightest.