Darren New wrote:
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, blue?

I imagine the DVD you were burning doesn't come off too well either.

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Darren New wrote:
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, blue?
> 

Inquiring minds want to know ...

Then again, I did manage to blue screen WinXP yesterday purely by 
accident. Create enough .NET controls with a size of 
(Int.MaxValue,Int.MaxValue) and it'll eventually blue screen somewhere 
in the video driver.

Please don't ask how I managed this. Suffice it to say, I had a gross 
misunderstanding of the documentation for the GetPreferredSize function.

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote

> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say,
blue?

Tomorrow: Do not cut the branch you are sitting on...

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, 
> blue?
>
> -- 
>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Come clean, Darren. Exactly why did you do that?

John
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"Doctor John" <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
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> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
> news:47e1e892$1@news.povray.org...
>> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
>> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, 
>> blue?
>>
>> -- 
>>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
> Come clean, Darren. Exactly why did you do that?

  I had the impression that a user did that, and that Darren was fixing it? 
<shrug>

     ~Steve~


>
> John
> -- 
> This is not a sig block
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"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote in message news:47e27bd1$1@news.povray.org...
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote
>
>> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the
>> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say,
> blue?
>
> Tomorrow: Do not cut the branch you are sitting on...

      Yes, don't.  ;)

    And also, don't stand under the branch you're cutting springs to mind 
too.

      ~Steve~

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St. wrote:
> "Doctor John" <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
> news:47e287c3$1@news.povray.org...
>> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
>> news:47e1e892$1@news.povray.org...
>>> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
>>> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, 
>>> blue?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>> Come clean, Darren. Exactly why did you do that?
> 
>   I had the impression that a user did that, and that Darren was fixing it? 
> <shrug>
> 

Mea culpa. Read it wrong prob cos I'm exhausted and looking forward to 7
days away from *ork

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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nemesis wrote:
> Why in hell would anyone do that anyway?!

I was burning a DVD, and it wouldn't go above 1x even tho it's a 4x 
drive. I thought maybe I'd screwed something up and it had wound up as a 
PIO interface rather than DMA or something.  So I did the usual Windows 
fix for it, which is uninstall and reinstall the driver.

I *expected* to either be told "Can't do that - driver in use" or to 
have it uninstall when I closed the burner or when I next rebooted. But 
it yanked the driver out from under immediately and BSOD'ed a "not 
implemented interrupt" BSOD.

Amusing, to say the least.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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St. wrote:
>     And also, don't stand under the branch you're cutting springs to mind 

Welcome to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump!

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:14:01 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> I *expected* to either be told "Can't do that - driver in use"

One might argue that a BSOD is a way of saying that to you. ;-)

Jim

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