A fax application or the Windows Fax and Scan application may randomly crash when you try to send or receive fax documents on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)-based computer.

When this problem occurs, you may find an event in the Application event log that resembles the following event:

Faulting application WFS.exe or [application name], version [version number], time stamp [time stamp], faulting module WFS.exe or [application name], version [version number], time stamp [time stamp], exception code 0xc0000094, fault offset [offset], process id [process ID], application start time [start time].

When you put a Windows Vista-based computer or a Windows Server 2008-based computer into hibernation, the system may crash. Additionally, you may receive a Stop error message that resembles one of the following messages:

• STOP 0×000000A0 (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
  INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR (a0)
• STOP 0×0000007a (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
  KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
• STOP 0×00000077 (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
  KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR

This problem occurs only occasionally. Currently, the problem is found on computers that have SB700 Southbridge chipsets installed.

Consider the following scenario. You are running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 on a computer that has multi-core processors. A driver on the computer calls the MmProbeAndLockPages routine asynchronously. In this scenario, data corruption may occur.

This problem occurs randomly. It typically occurs when the following conditions are true:

• The computer has some graphics processing devices installed.
• You are running a graphics-intensive application.

When this problem occurs, the system or the application may crash. The actual symptoms vary, depending on the specific drivers that are installed on the computer.

If five or more monitors are attached to a Windows Vista computer, a video playback application such as Windows Media Player crashes.

Consider the following scenario:

• On a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, an application uses legacy methods to query performance counter values. For example, the application uses the RegQueryValueEx function to perform a global query for performance counter data.
• Counter data is returned from more than 64 counter sets that are registered by performance counter version 2.0 APIs. For example, the application performs a global query on a system on which more than 64 of these counter sets are registered.

In this scenario, the application may crash.

Consider the following scenario:

• You are using a Windows Vista-based computer.
• The computer has a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk drive that has full-disk encryption capability.

In this scenario, when the SATA hard disk drive is operating in Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) mode, the hard disk drive may stop responding. Additionally, the computer may crash.

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