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Not always everything works perfectly even on most famous OS and on the best hardware. I was wondering if somebody had seen some strange, unexepcted or unexplainable things in OS, hardware or else. I think it is a good idea this bugs be documented and accidentally discovering a bug maybe quite fun

I notice something strange in MS Visual Studio 2005 Disassembler. The instruction for moving from/to mem16/reg16 to/from segment is designed for 8 segments but there are only 6. So the debugger show last two segments as ?? but the instruction is valid

When I was fiddling with BIOS floppy default settings in my OS to increase floppy disk reliability, I've made the disk drive no longer read properly until you would turn off the PC. Plus, if you would remove the floppy when the drive was reading from it, the floppy drive would sound like a compressor motor ... http://inflaters-site.info/zvuk.wav.WAV

When I was trying to set my OS's character codepage to show middle-European characters properly, the screen went corrupted with unreadable characters (many times, many tries), but it was nothing serious.