Re: Blue screen in Windows

From: Andrew Aronoff (aaronoff_at_AYA.YALE.EDU)
Date: 05/21/03

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    Hello David,

    > if you try to navigate to a specially crafted callto url Windows
    > halt with a Kmode exception not handled . I canīt reproduce this
    > always, particulary not after rebooting from the system halt

    I have some corroborating information about this BSOD.

    FOA, it can be avoided on my system by closing all instances of IE
    before NetMeeting is opened.

    I posted to microsoft.public.internet.netmeeting in April about this
    problem. My post can be viewed here:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_fr&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&threadm=97kl8vojcjkis4062vve5enlqo7rjnfu7u%404ax.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%257Clang_fr%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26client%3Dgooglet%26q%3DKMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED%2B0x1E%2BStop%2BMessage%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

    (The URL will undoubtedly wrap. Alternatively, please search in Google
    Groups for "KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED 0x1E Stop Message". My post is
    usually the first one listed.)

    Here's as much as I was able to find about the cause of this BSOD:

      When NetMeeting starts up, it changes the graphics driver color
      depth. However, existing IE instances do not alter their color depth
      to match. When a new IE window is opened from an IE instance with
      the wrong color depth and then maximized, the crash occurs.

    I have successfully avoided this BSOD via a .VBS script that first
    checks for IE instances, saves the target URLs, closes the instances,
    starts NetMeeting, and reopens IE to the same target URLs after
    NetMeeting is closed. (I'd be happy to send a copy of this script to
    the curious in return for a coding critique.)

    Any further information about this BSOD that would shed light on its
    periodicity would be very much appreciated.

    regards, Andy

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