ICQ bug-a-boo

[Lex]

Very strange thing has been happening. When I type a certain number of characters in my ICQ window to well, anyone on my list, my system blue screens. Must be an AOL feature, as this never used to happen on any computer until they took over. Thought about upgrading to the latest version. But as time goes along, I get more and more put out with AOL's shenanigans, and have less and less interest in it.

Anyway, it took a while before I finally figured out, it's blue screening primarily on ICQ at this point. Weird.

Lex

[Kevin P]

What program is running when the blue-screen appears? Usually this info is shown in the blue screen dump info. A lot of times, it's a flaky driver that causes these.

KJP




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[Bing Fung]

Strange happenings Lex...

Flaky driver like in ICQ's progam Kevin?

What about uninstalling and reinstalling ICQ?




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

weird. I've never had ICQ cause me any major problems before...even on 9X platforms.

[Lex]

Yeah, this is strange. Never encountered anything like this. I blue screened it like 3 times in a row the other night until I became a believer. The other day, I set my cmos not to fail on errors even, thinking this might prevent my blue screen of death.

Kevin, usually it happens so fast, It's hard to get much info on it. I will try the new version, if that doesn't work, ICQ is out of commission on this PC.

I did reinstall it the other night, but I confess, I overlaid it, and didn't do an uninstall first, lol. that didn't work of course.

Lex