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I cannot remember the last time XP BSOD on me. And that would be probably 3 years, although I am getting old... :}

Someone's got to stick up for the Dark Side of the Force around here...
This is a screenshot of one of the servers at my company :8 Been up since 16th Dec of last year, when I upgraded the OS to 2012 R2.
It's only a tower server in a small office cupboard, no professional datacentre stuff! I see no reasons why it won't make it to a year / next OS upgrade :cool:

http://i.imgur.com/QlFH0sP.png

Pre Y2k I had the task of finding a print Q server which had 350 q's hanging off it.

looked in all the usual places, then the stupid places.

Then it was find the switch and try and work out where it was using the port numbers.

On the second day I resorted to asking the cleaner.

She then opened her closet and at the back under a heap of cleaning crap I found a 386 bindery 2.11 netware server. Up time 7 years.

The cost of replacing said printer server with a MS one was in the region of 8k without licenses.

It might even now be still running with nothing attached to it because I forgot to pull it before it was end of contract for me and I don't think I told anyone where it was.

Likewise, and that was when I was experimenting with various RAM modules to establish which one the laptop didn't like...

I now have a brand new (well over a month, actually) machine with Win 7 on an SSD drive and the BSOD count is now 5. On top of that it has failed to fully load the desktop on start up twice, necessitating a reinstall from backup image. Oh, then there's the "hanging" when shutting down, or putting it to sleep, and the "well known" (since Vista days) problem of files not showing in Explorer until pressing F5 to refresh.

And I am supposed to be glad I've "Upgraded" from XP??? Granted, this machine was poorly configured by a national supplier, and didn't have the correct drivers installed when supplied - since corrected by myself. But despite this, it threw another wobbly today.

Even if I DO manage to convince them to take it back and refund my money, I will be left with a tricky decision on how to proceed. The 8 year old doorstop isn't being retired to the loft just yet...

You're clearly not trying hard enough. I got Windows 8.1 to BSOD a few weeks ago.

I've got a machine that's been up since September. The machines at home have only been up 56 days because on that day the power company disconnected the mains for the day while they replaced the local street power cables. They're all Linux machines though. I've had an OS/2 machine do a couple of years before a power outage finally got it.

WTF? I said XP!

"I cannot remember the last time XP BSOD on me."

It must be a very limited XP! I've had any number of XPs BSOD on me in my time (only run a couple in VMs now).

But I claim the prize, I've had every single OS I've ever used give me the finger at various times, sometimes several times a day - the only one that I can't recall ever did (for those that remember it and possibly because I only used it a few times was PICK).

Mavericks! Don't make me larf!

Mac

:hmm:

It was. Only 154 folders in Program Files. :cool:

My Dell, running XP, has never gone BSOD on me in the eight years it's been in daily use.

A man from Microsoft did phone me to tell me there was a problem with it though. :ooh:

BSOD seem very hardware dependent.

I personally have been very luck and never experienced them much.

So I can completely believe that some get them every day and others never at all.

Vulcanized said:
I'll wager that the man who phoned had a thick Indian accent. That always seems to be the case when they phone me.