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Ho hum. The last whizzo 1/10/08 Vista update did for my only Vista PC -
a Toshiba portable. It totally destroyed itself beyond repair.

The update finished and upon reboot it generated a genuine BSOD
sysnurdle error message screen which persisted for all of 200ms before
the machine spontaneously switched itself off with a loud click (not
enough time to read it and barely enough time even to recognise what it
was). Blink and you would have missed it entirely.

After that nothing worked - the repair functions basic and advanced
diagnostics could see the previous known good configurations but were
unable to finalise them even given several hours trying. It got stuck in
some kind of verification loop. The first serious attempt to boot after
that failed whilst it was checking modules with about 3300/68990
displayed on the screen when it went click and switched off. Then it got
even worse and stuck at 667/68990 but now it did not instantly switch
off so it was possible to write down the error message for all the good
that does:

!! 0xc0000034 !! 667/68990 (qwave.dll)

The display appeared to be refreshing this text at glacial speed.

Hardware testing with Vista not loaded shows nothing wrong.

I finally lost patience this morning and trashed the whole thing back
into working with the master install disk. Thank heavens for backups.

Their lame slogan "Working just got more fun" really grated.

I wonder how long it will last this time...

Regards,
Martin Brown
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Posted by Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on October 3, 2008, 9:55 am

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Martin Brown wrote:

> Ho hum. The last whizzo 1/10/08 Vista update did for my only Vista PC -
> a Toshiba portable. It totally destroyed itself beyond repair.
>
> The update finished and upon reboot it generated a genuine BSOD
> sysnurdle error message screen which persisted for all of 200ms before
> the machine spontaneously switched itself off with a loud click (not
> enough time to read it and barely enough time even to recognise what it
> was). Blink and you would have missed it entirely.
>
> After that nothing worked - the repair functions basic and advanced
> diagnostics could see the previous known good configurations but were
> unable to finalise them even given several hours trying. It got stuck in
> some kind of verification loop. The first serious attempt to boot after
> that failed whilst it was checking modules with about 3300/68990
> displayed on the screen when it went click and switched off. Then it got
> even worse and stuck at 667/68990 but now it did not instantly switch
> off so it was possible to write down the error message for all the good
> that does:
>
> !! 0xc0000034 !! 667/68990 (qwave.dll)
>
> The display appeared to be refreshing this text at glacial speed.
>
> Hardware testing with Vista not loaded shows nothing wrong.
>
> I finally lost patience this morning and trashed the whole thing back
> into working with the master install disk. Thank heavens for backups.
>
> Their lame slogan "Working just got more fun" really grated.
>
> I wonder how long it will last this time...
>
> Regards,
> Martin Brown
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Don't use Vista!
I've got a new quad core machine and used my old copy of XP.
Why would *anyone* want Vista?

--
Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff

Posted by Eeyore on October 3, 2008, 10:03 am

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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

> Why would *anyone* want Vista?

For the headache and the cost of upgrading hardware plus borked code maybe ?

Graham

Posted by Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on October 3, 2008, 11:00 am

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Eeyore wrote:

>
> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>

>> Why would *anyone* want Vista?

>
> For the headache and the cost of upgrading hardware plus borked code maybe ?
>
> Graham
>

For those who like the look of Vista, Vistamizer
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/VistaMizer.shtml

I have it on my XP machine to pretty it up a bit. No problems.

--
Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff

Posted by Martin Brown on October 3, 2008, 10:26 am

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wrote:

> Martin Brown wrote:

> > Ho hum. The last whizzo 1/10/08 Vista update did for my only Vista PC -
> > a Toshiba portable. It totally destroyed itself beyond repair.

> > Their lame slogan "Working just got more fun" really grated.

> > I wonder how long it will last this time...

>
> Don't use Vista!

Oh! I agree. Unfortunately some of my customers insist on it :(

Many corporates I know are staying with XP.

> I've got a new quad core machine and used my old copy of XP.
> Why would *anyone* want Vista?

I have absolutely no idea. I posted this as a cautionary tale. I
suspect that there is some diabolical interaction between the Vista
drivers and Toshiba portables far too clever for their own good power
saving hardware features.

I use Vista on one sacrificial new machine for testing purpose only.
Even with light use Vista dies with monotonous regularity (twice
fatally in 6 months from new).

Regards,
Martin Brown

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