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pofnlice:
Can I just say...

He just said that!


--- Quote from: "Worker201" ---Well, it seems like it wasn't really a system file that ate itself, but the hard drive dying.
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and you saw someone asked this question...


--- Quote from: "toadlife" ---Someone asked, "how can a file become corrupted"?
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I usually just pay them off until they become dirty....then I exploit them.
No, really. Windows files can bcome corrupted by a lot more common incidents than a hd going bad. Many of the malwares and viruses going around now do just that. Windows also has on occaision just decided not to copy a portion of, or a complete program during install or update. OK maybe we can blame that on faulty disk or the upgrade was right...but it still could result in the same thing...making your computer as corrupt as the white house.

toadlife:

--- Quote from: pofnlice ---Can I just say...

He just said that!

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Sorry. I failed to read the whole thread thouroughly. I got sick of the "OMG Microsoft doesn't support ISA, therefore they are evil" crap and skimmed through.

worker201:

--- Quote from: toadlife ---Sorry. I failed to read the whole thread thouroughly. I got sick of the "OMG Microsoft doesn't support ISA, therefore they are evil" crap and skimmed through.
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I'm pretty sure nobody said that.  It was postulated that ISA support was deprecated in Windows XP, and then reasons were speculated.  If you are correct that only nonPNP ISA support is deprecated, then M'Obrien's post was somewhat misleading, which led to untrue conclusions.  Please take the time to read each post before replying.  And if it's not too much fucking trouble, try to comprehend them too.

Calum:
well i certainly didn't say any of that moronic crap. i agree, anybody who is replying to some comments should at least familiarise themselves with what the comments actually say in the first place.

mobrien_12:
I have been under a very very strong impression that ISA support, not just the non PNP, was scrapped from XP.  I have understood this since a year before XP was launched.  Reasoning for this was that ISA bus is damned slow, XP is fucking bloated and wouldn't be running on many systems with ISA boards anyway, and scrapping ISA support simplifies the kernel and speeds things up (one of the reasons to drop it from custom Linux kernel compiles if your MB doesn't have it, BTW).  Apparently I didn't get the whole story.

The fact that the hard drive was dying was the root cause.  The isapnp file was corrupted due to the hard disk dying, which created the symptom listed above.  

My statement, which appears to be erroneous, was that this was evidence that MS had critical legacy file requirements in it's code that were actually unnecessary.  This would be further evidence of MS crappy coding practices.

ISAPNP is apparently used, not a true vestigal file, so the hard disk corrupting the file leads to a legitimate crash.

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