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minus-squarePotatisen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoMaybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?
minus-squarelmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoI guess if the code acted as if it got a valid response without checking it could get into a very weird state. Or the code just fails hard. At the driver level it’s very easy to kill things.
minus-squaredigdilem@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIt has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.
Maybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?
I guess if the code acted as if it got a valid response without checking it could get into a very weird state. Or the code just fails hard.
At the driver level it’s very easy to kill things.
It has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.