Xbox 360 Crashing Like Mad? + Screenshots
From Xbox-Scene.com:
Jsgongwon, one of our forum members, reported that his newly bought Xbox 360 keeps crashing while playing Project Gotham Racing 3 in single player mode.
He's playing with the default settings, and apparently his Xbox crashes even before the end of the first lap. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup occur too. He included screenshots of the crashed Xbox 360 and a video of the crash.
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23.11.2005SQM Client Causing Crashing in Windows 7
Many users have started experiencing random crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an
MSI based installer. This issue is bad enough that some people have even formatted because of it, only to have it come back again...
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19.01.2009More Mysteries of the Win32 MessageBox Bug Revealed
Continued tests by BetaNews on
the form of the Win32 API
message box call discovered
two weeks ago, capable of
crashing Microsoft Windows
Vista as well as earlier
versions, indicates that while
the executable code remains a
problem, its capacity for
damage to Windows computers
may be limited to merely
crashing the system...
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03.01.2007Jobs: Fix for crashing iPhone apps bug en route
Apple is apparently set to release a fix for an issue which is locking some iPhone users out of their installed third-party applications...
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21.08.2008Apple investigating graphics issues with new MacBooks
Early purchasers of Apple's new unibody MacBooks are reporting crashing and graphic corruption during gameplay. Users are reporting that their
screens turn to black upon loading a game and shortly after the computer locks up and the sound enters into an infinite loop. Users state that once
the systems lock up there is no other method of recovery but to restart the MacBook. The issue occurs under both Windows and Mac OS X affecting
titles including but not limited to World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Company of Heroes.
Read full story.....
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28.11.2008Firefox Update Leads to Java, Flash Glitches
If you, a customer, or someone you know uses Firefox, you or they probably had to stop at some point over the past week and install its 2.0.0.8
update. So you may want to know about this, from Percy Cabello at Mozillalinks.org:
Firefox users who updated to the latest Firefox 2.0.0.8
version released last week may find that the Java plugin doesnt work. Apparently one of the dozens of bugs fixes uncovered a Java plugin misbehavior
that prevents it from starting properly and crashing the browser. A bug has already been filed on Suns bug tracking system.
Read full story.....
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24.10.2007GTX 200 prices crashing, Nvidia said to be shifting strategy
There is trouble in Nvidialand. AMDs new graphics cards apparently have surprised Nvidia, forcing the company to cut the prices of its new cards.
Sources told TG Daily that Nvidia is adjusting its marketing strategy to GeForce 8800 cards to avoid what has all the signs for a big sales decline on
the high end. Of course, that means that it is a good time for graphics cards shoppers. Heres some insight in what you can expect to find on the
market.
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14.07.2008Xbox Originals Are Imperfect Says Microsoft
A day after confirming downloadable Xbox games for 360, Microsoft says "there are some known issues" with the games including choppy visuals, lack
of additional content, and even system crashing.
"We got issues."
According to Xbox.com, "there are also
some issues unique to specific game titles," such as frame rate drops in Halo and Fuzion Frenzy, minor flickering in Crimson Skies, random bursts of
audio static and texture issues on Fable, and lack of 720p support for Psychonauts.
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15.11.2007Adobe announces no CS3 support on Snow Leopard
John Nack, the principal product manager for Photoshop at Adobe, last week announced on his public blog that CS3 and earlier have not been tested on
Snow Leopard. There have been reports of CS3 being unstable on Snow Leopard surfacing around the web - including CS3 crashing when fonts are
changed. Photoshop CS2, however, is listed as not compatible with Snow Leopard. "While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run
on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested and released to the public several years before this new operating system became
available," the document states. "You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no
resolution.
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31.08.2009Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows
Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer. Enthusiast Chris Holmes claims that many users have started experiencing random
crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI based installer. Some have gone to the
extent of reinstalling the beta. Rafael has discovered that the fault arises from the Software Quality Management (SQM) Client which is a part of the
Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
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20.01.2009Microsoft helps FBI crack $2bn Chinese piracy ring
A massive, multi-year piracy
investigation ended
dramatically with raids and
arrests in China this week as
the biggest counterfeit
software syndicate in the
world was brought crashing
down.
Raids and
arrests in southern China over
the past two weeks marked the
end of the investigation
undertaken by the FBI and
China's Public Security
Bureau (PSB ). Microsoft along
with its customers and
partners helped in the
investigation. A total of
55,000 discs were seized
during the investigation.
The software, found in 27
countries and on five
continents, included versions
of Windows Vista, Office 2007,
Office 2003, Windows XP and
Windows Server - and is
believed to have generated
turnover of $2bn. Fake
software was produced from
various outlets in China in at
least eight languages
including Croation, Dutch,
English, German, Italian,
Korean, Chinese and Spanish...
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25.07.2007Apple retaliates with four new 'Get a Mac' advertisements
If you follow Neowin then you've been following all the recent advertisement shenanigans lately, and as you may see, said shenanigans have no end
in sight. Apple has gone and released four new 'Get a Mac' ads, combating Microsoft's recent 'Laptop Hunter' series. The four
ads, titled 'Biohazard Suit', 'Legal Copy', 'Stacks' and 'Time Traveler' and aim at things like having to use virus
protection (Biohazard Suit) and crashing (Time Traveler). These will no doubt spark a bonfire of typical controversy, especially the 'Time
Traveler' video. Biohazard Suit features the typical PC and Mac characters, in which PC has to wear a biohazard suit to avoid viruses out and
about.
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story.....
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20.04.2009Apple gets in a mucking fuddle over iPhone dictionary app
In the latest twist of Apple's confusing iPhone AppStore policies, one developers dictionary application was rejected for "objectionable
content". Why? It contained swear words. In a blog post by John Gruber, technical writer and technology pundit, Gruber confirms Apple censored an
English dictionary. Matchstick software, developers of Ninja Words - a "really fast" dictionary, first submitted their iPhone application on May 13;
it was rejected two days later. According to Phil Crosby, one of Ninjawords's developers, "Our app was crashing on the latest beta of iPhone OS
3.0. We quickly fixed this issue and resubmitted." Matchstick did not hear from Apple again until May 30 when Apple rejected the application for
"objectionable content".
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06.08.2009Microsoft to move graphics
outside OS kernel
Microsoft will move
the graphics for its next
version of Windows outside of
the operating system's kernel
to improve reliability, the
software giant has told
Techworld.
Vista's graphics subsystem,
codenamed Avalon and formally
known as the Windows
Presentation Foundation, will
be pulled out the kernel
because many lock-ups are the
result of the GUI freezing,
Microsoft infrastructure
architect Giovanni Marchetti
told us exclusively
yesterday.
The
company has already announced
to developers that most
drivers, including graphics,
will run in user mode - which
means that they don't get
access to the privileged
kernel mode (or Ring 0). At
this level, a process can do
anything it likes, including
overwriting memory that
doesn't belong to it. The
result of such overwriting by
(usually) buggy code is often
a system crash. So the move
should result in greater
reliability, because crashing
drivers cause some 89 per cent
of system crashes in Windows
XP, according to Microsoft.
When run in user mode, they
won't be able to bring down
the entire system...
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15.12.2005Word 2007 Crashes Are a Feature, Not a Bug
The Word 2007 bugs pegged as
security vulnerabilities by an
Israeli researcher are nothing
of the sort, Microsoft Corp.
said Thursday. Instead, the
application crashes reported
as flaws are actually by
design.
The researcher who posted
details earlier this week of
the bugs reacted by offering
screenshots of the Word
crashes and wondering why
Microsoft disputed his
findings.
On Monday, Mati Aharoni of
Offensive Security warned of
three new flaws in Word 2007
on the Milw0rm and
SecurityVulns.com security
sites, and posted malformed
Word documents as
proof-of-concepts. Microsoft,
however, seemed unconcerned.
Late
Wednesday, a company
spokeswoman repeated the
company's earlier contention
that the Microsoft Security
Response Center's (MSRC)
investigation, "found that
none of these claims
demonstrate a vulnerability in
Microsoft's Word 2007 or any
part of the Microsoft Office
System."
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14.04.2007Unofficial fix issued for Vista networking flaw
A system-crashing bug with potential malware implications has been uncovered in Vista. But a fix for the vulnerability, which revolves around flaws in
the operating system's network stack, may have to wait until the next service pack.
The TCP/IP stack buffer overflow was
discovered by security researchers at Austrian firewall firm Phion in October. Details of the flaw, which also creates a potential mechanism to inject
hostile code into vulnerable systems, were disclosed in a posting to BugTraq on Friday.
The vulnerability affects Enterprise and
Ultimate versions of Vista in both 32 and 64 bit flavours of the operating system. XP is immune. Phion has published a workaround in the absence of a
fix from Microsoft itself...
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25.11.2008NVIDIA Drivers Crash Vista
Were you one of the many early Vista adopters who experienced crashing? Well don't go out and point your finger at Microsoft just yet. A recent study
has shown that nearly 30% of Vista crashes(28.8% to be exact) in 2007 were due to NVIDIA drivers. That is an estimated 479,326 systems crashed due to
the drivers.
Microsoft crashes came in second place with 17.9%. While NVIDIA's competitor; ATI, came in fourth in the single
digits with only 9.3%. This is really going go pressure Intel because they have to support the incompatible chipsets. Hopefully in the near future we
can see some improvement on the drivers compatibility.
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29.03.2008Utility Spotlight: Windows Memory Diagnostic
Suppose one of the PCs you support is acting upfreezing, crashing, blue screening. Is some piece of hardware failing? Is some newly installed
application causing trouble? Or could it be faulty memory?
One way to
find out for sure is with the free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic utility. This tool will run a variety of tests on your PC's RAM to
determine whether flaws exist in any of the modules. And, like all of the utilities presented in our
Utility Spotlight column, its FREE!
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28.08.2008MySQL releases dodgy v5.1
Sun Microsystems late last week released version 5.1 of the open source MySQL database software, but the software's founder simultaneously warned of
a number of bugs present in the included new features that still needed to be
fixed.
Michael "Monty" Widenius, the founder of MySQL stated in a
blog post that most of the issues identified were
serious or crashing bugs. Not all problems are related to the new features; there are a number of older, known bugs that are still present in this
release.
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01.12.2008IE8 and Reliability
Andy Zeigler: Developing technologies that work reliably on their own and as part of the computing ecosystem is core to our mission and is an
important part of our commitment to Trustworthy Computing. Our customers and partners expect technologies and services they can depend on anytime,
anywhere, and on any device. We focus on constant improvements to the dependability of our technologies and services.
For
Internet Explorer, reliability means that the browser should always start quickly, perform well, connect to the Internet, and show Web sites without
crashing or hanging. Most users want their browser to work, recover smoothly after a crash, and display the Web correctly. Users are not as concerned
with what causes the problem, whether that be a poorly functioning add-on or poorly performing website. As part of our ongoing commitment to improve
reliability, we have done a great deal of work in IE8 to make the browser more robust in all of these areas: performance, recovery and display. In
particular I will discuss...
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29.07.2008Mediaroom Personal Server, available Dec 29
Microsoft might have just got the
Mediaroom party started four months ago, but
already dozens of providers around the world are already drinking the kool-aid and having a good time. The much anticipated
XBOX 360 integration is also
crashing in any day now, but Microsofts got one last party trick, called the "Mediaroom Personal Server".
On the generously
detailed Microsoft Support Lifecycles portal, where it lists the support availability dates for all previous, current and upcoming Microsoft products,
features an entry for "
Mediaroom Personal
Server". The general availability date provided is œ12/29/2007³.
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