RE: Partitions Compression

[Foz <nospam [at] mmu.ac.uk>]

>
> The argument against auto-reboot is the admin gets to see the STOP error
> first. If there is a serious problem with the filesystem or system files,
> it may be a reinstall job to get the server back up so the error is lost.

I can safely say, that I have not changed the system settings for
ther auto-reboot. It seems to be a feature of Windows on my
machine. It is not a regular occurance. It seems to see what i am
doing. Ie the first time the problem appeared, was with Win95, and
playing Windoze version of CC, when reaching the latter end of
levels, or just before I finish them, pop the machine reboots itself.
Also happened a couple of occasions while doing work with
Winamp playing a few hours worth of MP3s. (Autosave features are
very useful). Happened last night (Winamp playing MODs) and I
was working on a util to make Windows useful, and ping the
machine reboots. I personally think it is my hardware, and the
hardware is resetting the machine. It is strange that Linux has not
sucombed to this however. It must be because there is less
useage on the machine. I bet no-one (M/S) ever expected a
hardware combo like mine...
>
> Pity MS never gave you the chance to run a minimal NT safe mode to get
> rid of troublesome drivers.........

I thought that was the Load last known good menu thing

> Weird. The only time I've ever seen NT reboot, rather the BSOD was
> when the setting reboot on stop was set. This is handy for servers.
> Every time your machine BSOD, it reboots, and then carries on working
> again.
> It can be really anoying when you get a BSOD before you've even had a
> chance to log in. That happened to me once. I installed a new network
> driver, rebooted the machine. It got to the log in box, and then
> rebooted. This just carried on and on and on. What fun.

That sounds familiar.
Just a different O/S.

Paul Aspinall
Manchester Met. Uni

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