Question about a BSOD during resume from hibernation

[eXTREME2002]

I always hibernate and resume from it without any problems at all but today, i receievd a casual blue screen of death after i resumed from a hibernation which forced me to reboot via the reboot button and delete the restoration data so that i can start windows..etc

My question is: does this situation have made any bad impact on windows xp which necessitates me to restore a ghost image from my backup disk ?

I asked this question coz it seems 2 me that this situation is similar to a power failure case during my PC usage (in such a case, i restore the recent image immediately even if windows SEEMS 2 be fine coz in such power failure case, windows didn't shut down normally)

In brief, can this be considered as a non-proper shut down to windows ???

These questions seem trivial but i am curious about answers 2 them coz my XP PRO SP2 is very stable and i worry too much about keeping it in that state.

[mcovey]

pressing the reset button isn't really bad because your hardware doesn't stop.

it's not really harmful to windows because while windows is no tank, it can handle a little reboot.

[ducttapeBigSexy]

i wouldn't worry too much about it - improper shut downs can, in theory, lead to data lost, a corrupt hard drive, etc., but trust me, if that happened every time windoze was restarted improperly, almost every computer in the world wouldn't run properly. the fact is that windows is designed it take a hit now and then - everyone knows its impossible to keep any machine up and running forever

however, if you're still worried, run a chkdsk on your volume (the easiest way is to right click on your hard drive in my computer, click tools, and click error check. choose fix errors and run it - then agree to run it on a restart).

if stability is something that you really need for your computer (if, say, you're running a server or something), you might want to look into Linux or BSD - BSD is designed to be a rock (its used in routers and firewall machines a lot), and I know there have been documented cases of Linux machines staying up for over a year without once needing a restart.

[mcovey]

i wouldn't worry too much about it - improper shut downs can, in theory, lead to data lost, a corrupt hard drive, etc., but trust me, if that happened every time windoze was restarted improperly, almost every computer in the world wouldn't run properly. the fact is that windows is designed it take a hit now and then - everyone knows its impossible to keep any machine up and running forever

however, if you're still worried, run a chkdsk on your volume (the easiest way is to right click on your hard drive in my computer, click tools, and click error check. choose fix errors and run it - then agree to run it on a restart).

if stability is something that you really need for your computer (if, say, you're running a server or something), you might want to look into Linux or BSD - BSD is designed to be a rock (its used in routers and firewall machines a lot), and I know there have been documented cases of Linux machines staying up for over a year without once needing a restart.

my web host has 2 debian machines that haven't rebooted in 3 years.