Re: Weird irreproducible error

["James Dennett" <james.dennett@...>]

On 10/3/07, Eero Pajarre <epajarre@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> Uwe Sander wrote:
>
> > hmm, I recently had some problems with seemingly random errors on Windows
> > which were caused by an overly virus scanner. Have you checked this?
> >
>
>
> Also real hardware problems have happened. I have couple of times
> found problems on pc hardware using memtest86, at least in one
> of the cases the symptoms were just random errors in my program.

And in one case we tracked a problem down to a bit flipped in a
program on disk.  It's not common, but it does happen, and can cause
odd things.  (I don't think this is likely to be Steve Heller's
problem though.)

-- James