Re: BSOD

From: Fafhrd (fafhrd@LINKMASTER.NET)
Date: 06/05/98


And to think I hired on as one of my coders, a member of the MS NT
development team :)

Erik Madison
System Engineer
LinkMaster ISP Services
fafhrd@linkmaster.net



>And if anyone would like to BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) a Windows NT 4.0
>Server (and probably workstation) with Service Pack 3 installed, try this:
>
>1) Create a network shared printer on LPT1.
>2) Reroute LPT1 to the above printer.   (Just made infinite loop.)
>3) Print something and listen to hard drive thrash.
>4) Go to Device Control Panel and stop the 'ParVdm' service. (Think that's
>the one, if not try 'Parallel' or the other printer related one.)
>5) Enjoy your BSOD.
>
>Ah well, such is software.
>
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>http://patches.van.ml.org/          | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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>


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