Thursday, July 26, 2007

Will Windows work continuously for more than 49.7 days?

Windows crashes
automatically if you don't switch off the machine for 49.7Days.
Microsoft accepts this. Do you know why? In Windows the Virtual
Machine Manager (here after referred as VMM) is responsible for
creation, execution, monitoring and termination of virtual machines.
This VMM, which is a 32 bit, protected mode operating system entity,
provides a number of system services at chip level. One of these
services is "Get_System_Time".This particular service loads the EAX
register with the time in milliseconds since Windows started on that
machine. This service isaccurate to 1 ms. EAX is a 32 bit register in
Intel 386 Processor onwards.
So the maximum number of milliseconds it canhold is (232)-1 =
4294967295
milliseconds = 4294967.295 seconds = 71582.79 minutes = 1193 hours =
49.7 days So after 49.7 days the EAX resets to zero. Most of the Drivers
use this Time Service to keep track of the Timeout of various
services they provide. So after 49.7days the d! rivers cannot use the
get_System_Time function of VMM and they crash taking the OS along

not very sure abt the authenticity of the same though

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