[Techtalk] OT but I'm desperate.... Windows....!

[Michelle Howson]

*mutter mutter* "feature" *mutter mutter*

Ok.  I've not been home a lot in the last 24 hours, hence the sudden
silence from the source of all problems.  And I'm about to go again (argh)
so can't reply to the numerous messages in my inbox *grin*  but!  here are
some error messages for you all to get your teeth into.

The story: I had a single page to print off from Excel and decided that I'd
give the machine one last try, as it normally only crashes on the second
page.  And as I'm about to leave anyway, and nothing urgent is going on on
the machine, I decided if it crashes it won't be a catastrophy (or at
least, won't be risking a catastrophy).  It crashed - with an inch left to
print.  Now I have some error messages to share.

-blue screen-
***Stop: 0*000001E (0*c0000005, 0*8049CC50, 0*00000001, 0*629B53E8)
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

***Address 849CC50 base at 80400000, DateStamp 3d366b8b - ntoskrnl.exe

Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete.  Contact your system administrator or
technical support group.
-/blue screen-

On start up, got the following window pop up called Printers Folder...
There was an error found when printing the document "contactlist" to LPT1:.
 The device is not connected.

..given the option to retry or cancel.

Lastly, here is what I've dug out from the log:
Event Type:	Information
Event Source:	Save Dump
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1001
Date:		18/10/2002
Time:		3:54:53 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HONSHU
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e
(0xc0000005, 0x8049cc50, 0x00000001, 0x629b53e8). Microsoft Windows 2000
[v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini101802-01.dmp.

I've sort of decided that when the exams are over in a month or so, I'm
going to go cold turkey.  Save what I have to save, reformat again and
force myself to learn linux properly because I won't have windows at all.
I will eventually add windows as well, cause at the moment I'm not ready to
go completely without it (and I think some of my uni work has to be done
under windows) but -- no classes until march next year, so plenty of time
to sort myself out *laughs*

Can.  Not.  Wait.  *sigh*

Thanks for all the help, dudes...  if any of the above gives any more clues
as to what's going on, share away :)  And I will reply to the other
messages re. power etc, soon.

> > "This can be caused by an optional feature of Windows 2000/XP that will
> > restart the computer if any internal stop errors happen. To disable this
> > feature, please follow the process below:
>
>I still love how they refer to it as a *feature*. It gets me every time.
>:)
>
>Erinn