Posted on 05/18/2006 12:27:12 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde
Regarding the CPU overtemp shutting down your system in the same way as a powerloss, I wouldn't be suprised at all if that was done through the BIOS as a safety mechanism to keep the board from melting into a puddle of slag. It it is the BIOS doing it, then it would be equivalent to the OS of an abrupt powerloss because it would likely be bypassing the OS completely.
What antirepublicrat is talking about is completely different, ,and I think it's been clarified enough to make it clear.
This is just plain wrong. There's really no sense in arguing with you. It's like you're trying to say 2+2=5. If you don't understand or won't accept to learn there's not much I can do to help. Hey you made a mistake...not big deal, but keeping on trying to say you're not wrong when you clearly all...well it reveals not only your lack of understanding but also your underlying character.
No he's wrong and it's proven in his last post. A BSOD is a very specific thing. It's a kernel crash in Windows. If the BIOS does something (like abrubtly shuts down the machine) it is not considered a BSOD because it's not a kernel mode crash.
There is one type of user mode crash that will call a BSOD, but that's not even in the area we are talking about becuase we are talking powerloss/bios issues.
"System failure" is what produces a BSOD. Check "Automatically restart" to not see a BSOD anymore, instead you will experience (as the option indicates) an automatic restart.
Is that obvious enough for you?
It's like you're trying to say 2+2=5.
2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.
I'm talking BSOD, and have been from the beginning. You took the subject into power loss issues.
Right...to which you replied it's the same thing as a BSOD. Geessh...it's right in this thread just read what you wrote...remember you replied to my post which wasn't directed to at anything you said.
Let's see I replied to zeugma's comment...
If you've ever experienced your computer restarting for no apparent reason, you have had a BSOD that was supressed by a configuration setting.
That's not always true. sometimes the hardware will go caput on you...like if your CPU overheats. It will just turn off without even telling the OS.
I like the way 2003 handles that though. It at least tells you your computer was shutdown unexpectantly when you reboot.
Which hitting the reset is clearly different than a hidden BSOD. Proof is that there is no dump file created (assuming that a dump file is set configured to dump). However, even then it would write an event. There are definately big difference between a reset and a BSOD. A BSOD is captured by the OS...a soft reset (or hard reset) is not.
You injected power loss into z's BSOD comment.
That's not always true.
For no apparent reason. You keep ignoring that bit of text. CPU melting is is an apparent reason. And that's a shutdown, not a restart.
Which hitting the reset is clearly different than a hidden BSOD.
You are going GE on me, twisting my words into something I didn't say, and then showing your own words to be wrong.
Correct. Now go back and read WHY I did. If can can grasp that...then you're learning. Otherwise, I guess you're still hopeless.
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