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So I picked up an old project of mine and thought "hey what happends if I run this in HWA?? MYSTERY SOLVING TIME!". so I did.
and I got a blue screen of death. Now this was completely unexpected as I don't get it using standard MMF2 so I was wondering how this is possible in MMF2?
Oh and it'd be nice if we were sure such things won't happen in the next build.
What was the error code and message given?
I had no idea as it pretty much disappeared after a second. Had no time to write it down and couldn't printscreen it.
Certainly it will happen again won't it?
Well, I just had it again so I'm sure it's there. I could probably send you guys the mfa but eh, it's an old project.
Who should I send it to, you Jeff or Yves?
Yves would be the best one.
Find his email by looking up his profile.
It's likely not to be something that is repeatable on any other pc. Most blue screen errors are either hardware faults, data corruption in drivers, or bugs in the hardware or drivers.
Anyway, if you go into your System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery (in XP Pro, don't know about other versions of Windows) you can turn off automatic restart and get to read what the bluescreen says. It will normally be IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (hardware interrupt error) as the error message and list a .sys or .dll filename, which will be a driver file, and normally the graphics card driver. Normally installing an updated version of the faulting driver will make the problem go away.
Actually, no. I just recently formatted my entire computer and reinstalled Windows. And with that, the latest driver for my GeForce 9800 GTX as found on Nvidias homepage.
Anyways the error I get
Code:*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBFB3184D, 0xEDF89A7C, 0x00000000)
*** nv4_disp.dll - Adress BFB3184D base at BF9D5000, DateStamp 488b8a25
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
Contact your system or technical support group for further assistance.
Is the error identical every time? If it changes, that almost always indicates a ram fault. If you can cause it by doing exactly the same steps it normally indicates a driver bug. You could try the nvidia beta drivers or an older driver version.
nv4_disp.dll is the nvidia graphics driver, as I guessed :P
Why did you format and reinstall anyway?
Because I just bought my new graphics driver and thought while I was at it I could just aswell format and reinstall Windows.
Anyways that bug shouldn't be happening I'm pretty sure. I'm gonna test it on another computer in a minute.