Tuc wrote:
It exercises the hardware vigorously (CPU, RAM, disk, I/O controllers,
=2E..). This is exactly the situation under which failing hardware is
most likely to fail.
So the next question is how do I approach Dell to replace the
motherboard/cpu/memory? If I show them FreeBSD they'll laugh.
Can you find an intensive program to run under Windows that will reproduce
it?
Hell ... just install ActivePerl and write a perl script that does lots
and lots of number crunching (it need not be anything useful) or install
SETI and see if it crashes Windows.
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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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