Not so bad

Soft Crash in Windows

Situation: While playing Worms World Party, after completion of a mission, the program exited with no errors to the desktop. No other problems.

Repeatable: No

Conclusion: Failure in Windows to maintain system stabillity. Possible memory issues.

Performance on other computer: N/A
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Score:

PC Hard: 3
PC Soft: 1
Total: 4

Here we go again.

Hard Crash in Windows

Situation:System had been left on overnight, causing the display to turn off. Upon attempting to wake the computer back up, system froze, unable to wake up.

Repeatable: No

Conclusion: Failure in Windows to maintain system stabillity while in idle state. Possible hardware issue.

Performance on other computer: N/A
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Score:

Well well well, looks like this is a bad week for computers:

Soft Crash in OS X

Situation: Editing a webpage in mozilla, changed screen resolutions to help with alignment of images. Mozilla locked up (beach ball of doom) other programs remained responsive. After about 3 minutes Mozilla's talkback (cash reporting feature) came up, and mozilla quit.

Repeatable: No

Well I didn't expect this to show up so soon but here it is anyway.

Hard Crash in Windows

Situation: Installed the latest windows updates, clicked OK when asked to restart. Computer made it as far as the Windows is shutting down window and locked up.

Repeatable: No

Conclusion: Fault of windows, unable to properly shutdown. Does not appear to be an overheating issue, temp monitor stays in normal operating range.

Hard Crash in Windows

Situation: Inserted a damaged CD-R into the computer in hopes of recovering data. The only programs running were Bit Torrents. Computer locked up, no blue screen. No response at all from any input.

Repeatable: Yes

Conclusion: Hard crash in windows, fault of windows unable to properly handle bad disk

Ok, so I've decided to create a showdown between my mac and my PC to see which one crashes more often. Here are the rules:

* All crashes however insignificant are reported, including application crashes. Information about the crashes will be posted, including any details on the causes or the frequency by which this has appeared elsewhere (if possible).

*A running total of Hard Crashes and Soft Crashes for each machine will be kept at the end of each entry.