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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
August 23 2009 17:24 GMT
#1
So I have a Dell box that was running Vista that I sort of moved off of when I got home this summer from school. After use by my brother the Computer ran hot for a very long time (like the heatsync came unglued from the processor) and proceded to blue screen itself into oblivion. Worrying that all of my media and school work would be lost I tested memory and hard disks, look for a weak link. However my work proved fruitless and I thought all to be lost. I have now however managed to boot into Ubuntu AMD-64 from a live Cd and can see all of my hard disk stuff. Yay!

time to run rsync

Me 1, Microsoft 0.


***
MutaDoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1163 Posts
August 23 2009 17:27 GMT
#2
Yeah, fighting Microsoft is almost an insta-win. Only thing it beats is Mac.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11554 Posts
August 23 2009 17:28 GMT
#3
I salute you sir
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Makhno
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Sweden585 Posts
August 23 2009 17:29 GMT
#4
Congrats! It's a great feeling you get when you realize that the work you thought you'd lost is saveable.
"If I think, everything is lost"
Railz
Profile Joined July 2008
United States1449 Posts
August 23 2009 17:35 GMT
#5
On August 24 2009 02:27 MutaDoom wrote:
Yeah, fighting Microsoft is almost an insta-win. Only thing it beats is Mac.



Macs can blue screen too. Whats your point? XP SP2+ is still the most stable OS to date and Windows 7 is aiming to be pretty solid.
Did the whole world just get a lot smaller and go whooosh?_-` Number 0ne By.Fantasy Fanatic!
Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
August 23 2009 17:44 GMT
#6
What? How is a hardware problem the fault of Microsoft?
Get it by your hands...
Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
August 23 2009 17:45 GMT
#7
Manly
I <3 the internet, I <3 you
thoraxe
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States1449 Posts
August 23 2009 17:47 GMT
#8
I still however recommend you fix the extreme heating issues you have or your processor won't last long.
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Arnic
Profile Joined January 2009
81 Posts
August 23 2009 17:49 GMT
#9
On August 24 2009 02:44 Judicator wrote:
What? How is a hardware problem the fault of Microsoft?


IT JUST IS.
It always is.
Yesterday my microwave oven exploded. I'm pretty sure it was running on Windows.
xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
August 23 2009 18:06 GMT
#10
On August 24 2009 02:35 Railz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2009 02:27 MutaDoom wrote:
Yeah, fighting Microsoft is almost an insta-win. Only thing it beats is Mac.



Macs can blue screen too. Whats your point? XP SP2+ is still the most stable OS to date and Windows 7 is aiming to be pretty solid.

XP SP2/3 definitely aren't the most stable OS, however what MutaDoom is saying is that the only thing microsoft beats is apple/macs, not the other way around.
klizzer
Profile Joined March 2008
517 Posts
August 23 2009 18:07 GMT
#11
Just take out the hard drive and connect it to another pc if everything else fails. Or buy a hdd case.

As for overheating, I bet it's a fan issue.
gjg.instinct
Profile Joined May 2009
144 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-23 18:12:28
August 23 2009 18:07 GMT
#12
On August 24 2009 02:35 Railz wrote:
Macs can blue screen too. Whats your point? XP SP2+ is still the most stable OS to date and Windows 7 is aiming to be pretty solid.


qft...running XP pro SP2 since 2004
I don't think there has ever been a more stable GUI-based OS.
Ironically it also supports the widest range of software (certainly more than Vista) and everything supports more than Apple OS. Linux distros are great if you are comfortable working on the cmd prompt and installing packages...not really that user friendly.
Railz
Profile Joined July 2008
United States1449 Posts
August 23 2009 18:43 GMT
#13
On August 24 2009 03:06 xmShake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2009 02:35 Railz wrote:
On August 24 2009 02:27 MutaDoom wrote:
Yeah, fighting Microsoft is almost an insta-win. Only thing it beats is Mac.



Macs can blue screen too. Whats your point? XP SP2+ is still the most stable OS to date and Windows 7 is aiming to be pretty solid.

XP SP2/3 definitely aren't the most stable OS, however what MutaDoom is saying is that the only thing microsoft beats is apple/macs, not the other way around.



Having used a Mac and Mac server for school and SP2 else where I can most certainly say I trust my SP2 more. I've only have had maybe 3 crashes on the SP2, one from a beta program, 2 from bad ram sticks.
Did the whole world just get a lot smaller and go whooosh?_-` Number 0ne By.Fantasy Fanatic!
MER
Profile Joined June 2008
Bulgaria125 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-23 19:14:33
August 23 2009 19:13 GMT
#14
On August 24 2009 03:07 gjg.instinct wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2009 02:35 Railz wrote:
Macs can blue screen too. Whats your point? XP SP2+ is still the most stable OS to date and Windows 7 is aiming to be pretty solid.


qft...running XP pro SP2 since 2004
I don't think there has ever been a more stable GUI-based OS.
Ironically it also supports the widest range of software (certainly more than Vista) and everything supports more than Apple OS. Linux distros are great if you are comfortable working on the cmd prompt and installing packages...not really that user friendly.


Nowadays Linux distros come with plethora of GUI tools so you barely have to use the command prompt for tasks most users need. And they're more stable than Windows XP.
Hamster1800
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States175 Posts
August 23 2009 20:07 GMT
#15
To be fair, linux is only stable if you don't do anything. If you are changing settings or updating packages you can very easily break stuff (I have run into this issue several times) (also when I say packages I mean stuff like xorg, not stuff like firefox that nothing depends on).
D is for Diamond, E is for Everything Else
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
August 23 2009 20:13 GMT
#16
so what you're saying is windows blue screens in order to save your cpu from frying but linux let's you keep going?

also you could just stick the harddive into a another computer since it's only a cpu problem.
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
Railz
Profile Joined July 2008
United States1449 Posts
August 23 2009 20:25 GMT
#17
On August 24 2009 04:13 MER wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2009 03:07 gjg.instinct wrote:
On August 24 2009 02:35 Railz wrote:
Macs can blue screen too. Whats your point? XP SP2+ is still the most stable OS to date and Windows 7 is aiming to be pretty solid.


qft...running XP pro SP2 since 2004
I don't think there has ever been a more stable GUI-based OS.
Ironically it also supports the widest range of software (certainly more than Vista) and everything supports more than Apple OS. Linux distros are great if you are comfortable working on the cmd prompt and installing packages...not really that user friendly.


Nowadays Linux distros come with plethora of GUI tools so you barely have to use the command prompt for tasks most users need. And they're more stable than Windows XP.


Stable in the sense that DOS was stable; there is a very limited app package you can put on any linux kernal when in comparison to Windows.
Did the whole world just get a lot smaller and go whooosh?_-` Number 0ne By.Fantasy Fanatic!
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