setup.exe crashing Windows 2000

[Max Bowsher]

Ian Burrell wrote:
> setup.exe is repeatedly crashing Windows 2000 on my machine.  It
> happens repeatedly right after selecting the mirror.  It only happens
> when other programs are accessing the network or when other cygwin
> programs like rxvt are running.  It is a hard crash; the machine
> resets itself and doesn't display a BSOD.

Isn't this an option? On my WinXP its: Control Panel > System > Advanced >
Startup and Recovery > Settings > System Failiure > Automatically Restart


Regardless, a user application shoudn't be able crash the entire system under
2k. It sounds like setup is triggering a bad device driver.

It might not be a bad idea to download the latest drivers for that network card.

> It does save .dmp files in
> c:\winnt\minidump.
>
> This is new behaviour; I run setup lots of times on this machine with
> no problems.  There are two things that have changed recently: updated
> to Windows 2000 SP3, and installed a Linksys phoneline network card.
> I am pretty sure I had the same version of setup.exe (2.249.2.5) and
> cygwin1.dll (1.3.12-2) for successful updates before making those
> changes.

Max.