On 31-Aug-01 Clint Tinsley wrote:
Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
I think Win98 had a bug where it would crash every 45 days or so.
One thing I don't understand is this mantra about how long you can leave a computer up before it will crash or when you might need to force it down or reboot to get things running right again.
As I recall the business (and I'm not sure about the "45"): a certain memory location or register was used to accumulate the number of microseconds since startup. After 45 (49?) days, this overflowed. The bug was that this overflow trod on something else's toes and crashed the system. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 31-Aug-01 Time: 08:12:02 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------