Crashing crappy (celeron) computers for fun
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:00 am
Here's something fun to try on a celeron computer:
1. Open ms paint
2. go to "image" menu
3. select attributes
4. for width and height, enter 10,000.
Click ok.
Good luck with the rest.
Note: If paint simply resizes your drawing area and your computer resumes normal functionability, you are running a half decent machine.
Maximizing resources usage:
If the paint thing does in fact start making your computer go nuts (notable by the laggy interface, and the very loud hard drive) you can maximize this.
1. Open up autocad
2. draw something simple, like a circle
3. use the array tool to duplicate it 1000 by 1000
Then
1. Open up a programming tool such as visual C++
2. create a while(1) loop that allowcates memory, and opens a copy of itself.
3. compile and run.
At this point, you're hard drive should be roaring, and your process manager should be very interesting to watch as each process tries to make it to the top. Making mspaint use over 200MB of ram is not only fun, but is chalenging as you need to use up all the memory as fast and efficiently as possible.
This has not been tried on windows XP, but I can guarantee the results will be maximized, especially if you throw in a SP2 installation in the process.
Different results can be achieved by playing with your page file settings.
Have fun!
WARNING: old hard drives are extremely loud during this process, and sound very funny as the tone and rate of the clicking shifts around.
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1. Open ms paint
2. go to "image" menu
3. select attributes
4. for width and height, enter 10,000.
Click ok.
Good luck with the rest.
Note: If paint simply resizes your drawing area and your computer resumes normal functionability, you are running a half decent machine.
Maximizing resources usage:
If the paint thing does in fact start making your computer go nuts (notable by the laggy interface, and the very loud hard drive) you can maximize this.
1. Open up autocad
2. draw something simple, like a circle
3. use the array tool to duplicate it 1000 by 1000
Then
1. Open up a programming tool such as visual C++
2. create a while(1) loop that allowcates memory, and opens a copy of itself.
3. compile and run.
At this point, you're hard drive should be roaring, and your process manager should be very interesting to watch as each process tries to make it to the top. Making mspaint use over 200MB of ram is not only fun, but is chalenging as you need to use up all the memory as fast and efficiently as possible.
This has not been tried on windows XP, but I can guarantee the results will be maximized, especially if you throw in a SP2 installation in the process.
Different results can be achieved by playing with your page file settings.
Have fun!
WARNING: old hard drives are extremely loud during this process, and sound very funny as the tone and rate of the clicking shifts around.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3241, old post ID:26363
