[GD-Windows] SoftICE for debugging?

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

I'm having these problems with Windows 98 machines spuriously crashing 
once in a blue moon. Often, the machine is not reachable through the 
devices plugged in (keyboard, mouse, network card) so it looks like a 
hard "kernel hang". Of course, these are not repeatable, and will only 
happen on one machine out of 20 when running testing for three hours. 
Anything else would make it too easy :-)

What kinds of tools have y'all had success with (or not) in this 
sitation? The product appears to run fine on Win2k/XP. I've been hearing 
about SoftICE but haven't used it personally (and haven't seen it used 
for the last three years or so). I believe it's a debugger used mostly 
for driver debugging, but would it allow me to examine machine state 
under these conditions?

Anything else you can recommend?

Cheers,

			/ h+