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VM Ware Fusion - blue screen on resume
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Hi,
I'm sure someone has seen this but as you can imagine looking up "windows blue screen" gets me 900 Millions pages of non-related stuff, even when I try to restrict it to vmware.
I have a friend who is new to macs, just installed VM Ware Fusion - it seems to work very well but he just had a blue screen on resume and can't figure out what to do.
I'm hoping he is not doomed to reinstall windows.
any ideas? I don't know anything about fusion really and I'm helping him over email.
thanks
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You can take the dude out of So Cal, but you can't take the dude outta the dude, dude!
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Mac Elite
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By the way he's running XP.
On a brand new MacBook with leopard.
and has USB external disk drives.
(Last edited by Gavin; Jan 4, 2008 at 11:02 PM.
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You can take the dude out of So Cal, but you can't take the dude outta the dude, dude!
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Moderator  Join Date: Dec 2000
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It could be those USB devices causing Windows to get stupid as it comes out of Resume mode. He may want to consider disconnecting all of them before putting Fusion's XP into Resume.
If he's stuck in the BSOD, just have him quit the VM, which is just like force-restarting a Windows PC also stuck on a BSOD.
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Mac Elite
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OK thanks
my thought was that he saved a session with the drive plugged in then resumed later with it not connected
Is there a "force windows to restart" button or menu item?
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You can take the dude out of So Cal, but you can't take the dude outta the dude, dude!
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Moderator Join Date: Dec 2000
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Power Off from the Virtual Machine menu should power off the VM.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Fixed it.
It was in fact as simple as restarting with a menu item. The real problem is my friend does not consider himself Mac savvy enough (after 4 days) to risk fooling around with it.
No idea what caused it but when it happens again he knows what to do.
Thanks for the help.
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You can take the dude out of So Cal, but you can't take the dude outta the dude, dude!
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