We hope this hotel has a nice spa because Windows sure looks like it needs some R&R

Microsoft Windows is notable for its ability to fall over pretty much anywhere, but this is, we think, the first time it has disgraced itself over the side of a hotel. "The 4 star hotel is using a 2 star OS for its signage, it seems," said our reader, who spotted the borkage over the weekend, smeared up against the wall of the …

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There's a fix for this proble ... gt67 gt~5678u ... Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you.

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Oh darn it, my PC crashed as I was posting a comment.

[Diodelogic]

Odd coinky-dink

I got stuck in one of these recovery loops a few weeks ago, immediately after installing a new M.2 SSD as the boot drive. Windows kept trying boot from the previous drive and, of course, immediately failing to recovery mode. I finally selected the boot drive myself prior to startup, and the system came up properly. But the next time I restarted without selecting the drive (as an experiment), the same error occurred.

I was starting to get a little perplexed. I went into the BIOS and checked the system boot order--it was incorrect. D'oh. I set it to the correct order,saved, and restarted. The wrong drive got selected before I could get the boot order menu. Back into BIOS. Wrong order still. Corrected. Restarted. Wrong order, failed boot.

WTF? A bad chip?? Why won't it save??

Did the same thing about five more times and suddenly, everything was working correctly. Pushed my luck, went into BIOS--the boot order was correct, and has remained so every since. I have never seen something like this happen before in ~40 years of putzing with personal computers.

[Potemkine!]

Re: Odd coinky-dink

Nobody expects the Murphy Inquisition!

[Dave 15]

Years ago

Years ago a friend of mine was suffering the same sorts of problems. It was a pretty simple fix, catch the borking interrupt and reboot the machine.... worked a treat

[502 bad gateway]

Putting Windows in charge of a public display board is asking for trouble, no doubt a technically illiterate polyester suit thought that an advertising/public information board required access to the internet, an email account, and spreadsheets to function as a slide show... epic fail. Keep these coming please, they always brighten my day.

[Anonymous Coward]

> no doubt a technically illiterate polyester suit thought

Irony alert!!

[krf]

I have at least two customers who use full sized Windows towers to run single electronic signs. My suggestions to the idea of using a $30 dollar Raspberry Pi without need of purchasing licenses falls on deaf (i.e. technically ignorant) ears.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

That's because of security. the windows machine can connect to Microsoft everyday to download new antivirus updates -while the Pi would only be accessible over ssh, only from your machine only to supply new content.

[Old Used Programmer]

Been done...

Even that's overkill. Some "smart sign" companies a few years ago discovered that the Pi A+ (list: $20) could handle a sign and cleaned out the supply chain.

Since then, NEC has done a couple of lines of display monitors that can have embedded Pi Compute Modules built in.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a feature not a bug

If Windows is borking sale signage, I consider that a good thing.