Re: Driver for display goes to a infinite loop by viewing a html!

[Steven Leikeim <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:11:06PM -0000, Bipin Gautam wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> View this page:
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/crazy.html
> 

This is just crazy!!! :-)

> Try scrolling the picture for few seconds...[ don't kill the process] I have 
> tested it on several machines with intel vga. it reboots Winxp with a fetal 
> error because The driver for the display device got stuck in an infinite loop.

I tried this on a Dell Optiplex GX270 (It's got a builtin Intel 82865G Graphics
Controller). Windows XP with SP2 is installed. Accessing this page with IE
causes the system to crash as you desribe. If I use Netscape 7.1 on this
machine it just shows the page quite quickly and nothing further happens.
Mozilla 1.4.2 on Fedora Core 1 is similarly unaffected by this page.

> 
> regards,
> bipin gautam
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/

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