Who loves a good BSOD to kick off the morning?

Oooh, oooh, I do! My desktop is constantly BSODing because of lack of cooperation between the Nvidia drivers my primary graphics card uses for my two leftmost monitors, and the ATI drivers my secondary graphics card uses for my two rightmost monitors. In an ideal world, I'll buy a second Nvidia card to match my first, which should resolve the stability issues.

waaaaait, you have a Nvidia AND ATI card?

Yeah, and it works decently enough 95% of the time in Windows 7, but the remaining 5% of the time it causes me headaches. SirCmpwn, did you trace down the source of the BSOD?

Wow, that does seem like it would cause some fun. Do you have issues moving programs using 3D acceleration from one card to another?

Surprisingly, no. I've tried to span a window containing a UT session over two of the Nvidia windows and one ATI window, and it worked surprisingly well, if slower than either of the cards on their own.

You're doing it wrong.

Wait, what! That actually worked? I know most of the Xorg people I have talked to are not even sure how one would do that without disabling hardware 3d accel and doing it all through Software on the CPU. (This is how the old xinerama mode works) Currently they have it set where you can either disable hardware accel, xinerama/MergedFB. or have windows fixed to the card they are on, dual head zaphod or xrandr mode. At least that is how I understand it, I could be wrong on that.

No idea whatsoever. Luckily, I didn't loose anything. It was just a random BSOD.

BSOD's are not random, no crash ever is no matter how much it appears to be, either some driver or software on your machine has a bug in it or there is something wrong with your hardware.

Edit for grammar.

Also, I can see no cause, and it hasn't happened again, so I don't care what the cause is, so long as it doesn't happen twice.

Easy, one card does all the rendering, the output is piped back to system RAM, and then the OS displays the resulting image on the other card. Hence why its slow, because a) only one card is doing the rendering, and b) its copying over PCI-E (or, *shudder*, PCI)

Indeed, that makes sense (and yes, they're PCI-E cards).

I think I am probably the only one here whose HDD was working one day, and the next the MBR could be read, but Windows failed to mount the boot partition and ended up BSODing. You can correct me if anybody else has had such an issue, but, I just wanted to share because we're discussing the topic of BSODs in the morning... Unlike Kerm's, though, it happened 100% of the time, and now I don't even have Windows; I lost the recovery discs. I will wait to find original Dell Vista restore discs, then I'll get a Win 7 HP upgrade disc, I think... I don't need everything in Ultimate...

Good luck, that sucks. Do you think that there was physical damage to the drive, or just data corruption? Since I did some rearranging of which graphics cards I'm using I've been getting a few less BSODs, but they're still happening with annoying frequency (read: nonzero) on my desktop.

Well, actually, it's MUCH more likely that it was corruption. This would be because I could install Ubuntu onto it after Windows crashed, but still very odd... Yeah, I'm actually writing this on Ubuntu, which is running from the same HDD, and it's still just a mystery as to how Windows failed in the first place... I didn't drop my laptop or anything...

[random-thoughts]I REALLY need to find those discs... Linux in general could NEVER run certain Windows applications, and I only recently learned how to get TILP II to work... (I'm SO used to TI Connect) On the other side, Linux got to be the first OS I found a perfectly understandable Z80 assembly IDE on, although I've only used it for converted MT3 songs. I still need to learn how to program in Z80 ASM...[/random-thoughts]

Oh, and BTW, I'm glad your gfx card config is working at least better now.

Well, you can certainly use mono + Brass + BinPac8x on Linux. Sorry to hear about the corruption, that's why you need to have lots of backups! Many people around here seem to have lost data recently.

i got a white screen of death the other day... not sure why, looked just like a bsod, but with a white background and red text...

Whoa, that's a weird one; what was it about?

it was something about invalid pool something or other. cant remember exactly... it was right after waking it up after putting it to sleep over night. i would have taken a pic of it but the dang auto restart kicked in to fast

EDIT: i remember it was "bad_pool_header"