>An app (presuming it's a user-level app) cannot (to my knowledge) induce a
stop
>(i.e. bugcheck). Only a faulty kernel-mode component (i.e. ring 0) can do
this.
>
>
>This generally means a bug in a device driver. It is possible, of course,
for
>an app to induce a bugcheck (AKA BSOD, the 'Blue Screen Of Death') if it is
>communicating with a device driver in such a way as to flush the bug out.
Also,
>some apps come with their own kernel-mode drivers (though this is
uncommon).
>However, the same principle applies there - the bug is in the device
driver.

DeBabelizer does sometimes when it hits a faulty TGA file. Beats me. :)

Also Total Annihilation (an awesome RTS game) STOP's the system if you let
it install DX5 and then try to run it; it's pretty stupid to install a
Windows 95 version of DirectX. :|

-rdv

povray.org admin team wrote in message
<3577695e.43768355@news.povray.org>...
>>Also, the STOP's are a pain. Whenever an app crashes badly, NT generates a
>>STOP; just what it sounds like, a STOP halts the operating system and
forces
>>you to restart.
>

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