Customer Email : The Mockening (emphasis mine)

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

WindowsXL constantly crashes with follow-up message - "System has recovered from a serious error". On my checking further, told by Microsoft that "Error caused by a device driver". Although new Brother MFC-210C printer installed in June, it seems most likely that driver which came with Broad Band installed in Jan.2005 is cause. Comments PLEASE.

Comments

[noiresque.livejournal.com]

Windows XL? Is that a new version? My favorite error is trying to install Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2003 Standard and it saying that there are known issues with this platform.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

When you say "broadband", are you talking cable or dsl?

The Motorola cable modems have been known to occasionally disagree with the pentium motherboards, but only sometimes.

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

When will they come out with Windows XXXL? I'm a big guy.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Hahaha you're kidding..

I just liked this email for the completely unfounded assumptions contained within. WindowsXL is nothing compared to the logical leap necessary to think that a driver installed 6 months ago is more likely to cause a new problem than one installed 3 months ago. Not that either driver is likely to be causing the problem.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

DSL

I don't think the driver is the issue anyway. I bet he's just got a bad ram card or a fuctup mobo.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Hah. Punishment.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

P.S I take it you're on grave over in the Yes centre? We should prank each other. We could start an inter-ISP war

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Not tonight, hon. Am actually on a day off, sludging at home on the 'puter when I should be in bed as I'm on "Mum's Taxi Service" duty tomorrow. And meeting the older son's ex-girlfriend's new girlfriend. And meeting up with the Chief Bridesmaid from our wedding and findong out how his job stuff is going. And 1001 other things...

:-)

[c0c0c0.livejournal.com]

People are always blaming shit on their internet connection! Why? Why? Why?

[jecook]

Frankly, I blame the printer. Printer drivers always seem to fuck systems up the most. Especially if it's a USB based multi function device that can't wipe it's nose without explicit instructions from the computer, and a wet hanky from you.

( anyone remember windows bases printers?? I do. They sucked then, and they still suck.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

People are still scared of the internet. I think a lot of home users think of the internet as a sort of virtual neo-tokyo, rife with pimps, pros, pushers, hackers, shooters, wackers, phreaks, geeks, replicants, electric cyber-walruses and nefarious rasta cyberdrug dealers.

SO of course, anything that goes wrong with the computer can't be the nice safe Mormon printer, it has to be the dirty, nasty, seedy, steeped-in-subculture modems. That's my wildly exaggerated antitheory anyway.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

For debugging of drivers, applications and services in Windows NT 4, 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Longhorn.
Debugger is Available at: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx
Debugger must have symbol files for XP in order to analyze Mini-Dump files. The symbols packages are located at: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/symbolpkg.mspx


I use this all the time.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

It reads the dump files and will tell you why the pc is crashing. If it is a driver or memory problem.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Heh ok. Well GO TO BED!!

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Thanks but I do home user ISP support and really don't give a damn what this guy's issue is :)

I'll keep those links for home use though, ta

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Ah well there you go. This has saved my ass from reimaging many a machine.

[firewallender.livejournal.com]

The internet isn't some sort of virtual neo-tokyo, rife with pimps, pros, pushers, hackers, shooters, wackers, phreaks, geeks, replicants, electric cyber-walruses and nefarious rasta cyberdrug dealers??? Damn. Time for me to log off and go read some Neal Stephenson.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. It seems most likely, because I can't get tech support from Brother anymore, but I can from you! So it's GOT to be your problem, because there is no WAY I am paying for this.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Crap, I was thinking Chiba City, as soon as jahbulon mentioned the description. But that might do as well.

[firewallender.livejournal.com]

Ah, William Gibson then. My bad. :-)

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure Stephenson fits as well. It's just been awhile for me as I've been focusing more on his Baroque trilogy. ;)

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

And oh god is that trilogy not a work of brilliance. If you like a bit o cyberpunk I can highly recommend Greg Egan. He's an Australian hard sci-fi author, great stuff. Quantum Psychology :)

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I'll check him out, then. Just finishing up my latest Henry VIII book. heh. My whole brain is scattered.

[brotherflounder]

The Motorola cable modems have been known to occasionally disagree with the pentium motherboards, but only sometimes.
...
That explains a lot. Comcast refuses to accept that the Motorola modem they keep giving us does NOT want to work with the P3 or the P2, even though it works with my AMD notebook just fine.

[gaymafiakingpin.livejournal.com]

GO TEAM VENTURE!!!!

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

If it is the problem, then you'll notice because while you can use mail and other internet functions fine, as soon as you open a browsing window that requires loading, your machine will reboot.

I understand grabbing the latest driver from the Motorola site fixes all.

[brotherflounder]

Ah. Must keep searching then. Perhaps it is the fact that the other computers are Dells, after all.