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MS update 330994
From: "Gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:04:09 +1100
I have been doing a little testing here recently on a clean Win XPSP1 system. What I have found is that, when the CPU is under excessive load (mine being a P4 1.7Ghz) even though I have 512megs DDR, I get a failure of Windows. It does the "explorer fault" routine, your task bar disappears from your screen as do all your desktop icons and then the whole lot come back BUT the running programs in the tray that don't respond well to this event never show up. That has been a minor source of irritation to me. When testing, I have been removing and adding different things one at a time. Finally I got to MS Critical Update 330994 and removed it to see if it had any effect. It has been about 3 days now of LARGE load on this same machine, 24 hours a day and it hasn't faulted once. Therefore, I am only assuming, at this point, that 330994 was the problem as these crashes under load only ever seemed to happen when OE was also running. Would some kind person be able to install 330994 for me, put massive load on your machine and have OE running and using it and see if your machine faults in the same way then uninstall it, put the same load on and OE in use again and see if it remains OK for me? I have a sneaking suspicion that 330994 may have to be redone. Thanks for any input. I would have tested this on my XP laptop but it decided, over Xmas, to go to Heaven and of course this time of year, who can get a new motherboard? :( Greg. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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