ATI TV wonder and Win2K

[GenghisK]

lolol, I've just experienced a very funny though incredible thing (or rather incredible though funny) just 5 minutes ago. I was watching TV on my computer, while burning, downloading on DC, and partially playing tetrinet etc... Suddenly it crashed and gived me a blue screen, really nice one. With all the 00EFCD:007684: etc... memory dumping. The system was totally crashed, and though the burning process went on, so did the downloads and although I could not see anything on the TV, I could still hear the dialogs. Pretty amazing. I waited for 5 mins, then the cd was completely burnt, and apparently successfully(!). Then I pressed reset. Another surprise. While it was booting, showing the classic Boot screen with the Energy star bios and the Ram checking, I still heard... the TV. First I started to be really scared because my computer was haunted Then after 10 sec it stopped, but when the logon screen appeared it started again. I'm really frightened now. Calling ghostbusters...
Apparently MS programmers are sorcerors, although all their magics couldn't prevent bugs...

 

[ainwood]

You've stumbled on their secret plans to take over even MORE of the world. Soon, they will have Micro$oft TV.... And you've guessed it - you can't turn it off....... ever !

 

[yaroslav]

Well. It passed sometimes in the past while executing old games in Windows. Seems like the there was a direct transfer from the TV card to the Sound card and until the reboot reach the Sound card, the sound was heared

 

[damunzy]

The part that I find really weird is that after booting the TV turner started putting sound out to the Sound Card....maybe the TV tuner gets enough power from the coaxil cable to run? I believe Europe has more power pumping thru their lines (which I found out first hand when I was in Kuwait and Germany).

 

[GenghisK]

Damn, today I really did even better. My computer crashed, rebooted as usual and that time, the TV was on during ALL the boot phase!!! Damn Sorcery I said.

Btw, concerning those crashes, it's really annoying, because it started crashing 2 weeks ago, and it was always because of WinMGMT. I checked on MS support website they said "it was a known and normal fatal error". Cool.