WinNT/2000/XP crash

[Roman Ukhov]

What do you think about it?


int main()
{
for (;;)
printf("\t\b\b");
return 0;
}






Roman Ukhov
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[NMTop40]

it crashed my windows 2000 - blue-screen

i put while(1) instead of the for loop but otherwise the same.

(need to #include <stdio.h>

of course)

[SergueiP]

look at http://www.rsdn.ru/?forum/?gid=9&mid=12049&tid=11917 this problem was already discussed.


Good Luck,
Serge

[Todd.Harvey]

this is very helpful to me, as we have a motherboard (Matrox) that claims to have a reboot feature such that even if a machine blue-screens, it will reboot, and we wanted to test it. Thanks for the code.

[Todd.Harvey]

this allowed us to successfully test that motherboard auto-boot feature (it detects system failure and reboots around the blue screen).

However, now we are wondering why this works. Also, since there seems to be some system data that is written in a normal shutdown, I am a little afraid that we are doing some slight damage. For example, my clock got set back to Jan 1, and I am wondering if it is related to the blue screen.

The Russian language web site discussion seemed like it must be detailed, however, it was all Greek to me.

Regards,
Todd