Let the finger pointing begin

[morganlefay]

No its not just you......

I would have lost my job after 5 weeks of a critical machine blue screening......

Maybe his hands were tied by some management type..that didnt think it was 'important.

Personally I would have backed it up and either reinstalled or replaced depending on the age of the hardware ....etc


MLF

[nihil]

The original link works just fine for me????

Well in my everso humble experience....when a critical machine regularly starts misbehaving in this manner....there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed asap...and the machine should be repaired\replaced\reinstalled.

I agree, but am rather surprised..............given the amounts of money involved in oil exploration, I would have thought it would be standard procedure to replace a misbehaving machine with a known good one and then try to fix it?

If you get the same problem with the replacement machine, then it is time to check the sensors, as they must be causing the problem.

The guy must have some sort of legal death wish...........if he was called in to fix it and didn't, then I would say that was "reckless indifference" at a minimum?

To blame MS on this is just wrong....

Exactly! all the OS is doing is telling you it has a problem.............all other things being equal, I would suspect a hardware issue. They must have tested the thing when it was installed............so it must have worked then?

I had a machine in the other day that was crashing and giving critical error messages...........nothing in the logs really made sense............turned out the guy had added a strip of incompatible memory

Some hardware problems can be very obscure.

[morganlefay]

I totally agree nihil....the event logs and the BSOD error will point to the general cause of the failure...could be the sensor application and the hardware interface it was using causing the problem. Testing the whole thing on another machine would narrow down if it was hardware or application problem.

To just ignore and let it crash\seize up is just bad practice.....

Me ...i am relentless and will fight with it until I know what the issue\cause is...then I take steps to fix it.....

I wonder how many other oil rigs have the same issue or if it was one off....that in itself would point to hardware or third party app IMHO

MLF