What is the blue screen of death?

[Shannon]

:?: :?: :?:

 

[boombexus]

I think it's the color the screen turns to when Microsoft products crash.

 

[LoudMusic]

"BSOD" Blue Screen Of Death - When a Microsoft Windows operating system crashes for whatever reason the error message displayed is white text on a blue background.

 

[Gil]

If You haven't seen it count yourself lucky.
It exists and it's out to get us all.
My son, who is currently working on his A+ and CISCO certification says all Microsoft computers only need three keys on the keyboard...















CRTL, ALT, and Delete.

 

[Robin2]

communications, information systems controller...tell him to join the airforce.

 

[Shannon]

Oh, I get them all the time.

 

[Race Idiot]

Usually it happens when your computer needs rebuilding (software wise) or hardware has given up the ghost. Mind you I remember attempting to install Nero Burning rom 5.5 on my machine. It worked fine until restarting and during bootup it just bluescreened. It wouldnt even run in safe mode, or command prompt.

 

[Shannon]

I hate Safe Mode. 16 colours suck.

 

[Race Idiot]

2 Colours rocks though.
Hard.

Although I think you can only do it in NT4.

 

[Shannon]

Black & White perhaps?

 

[Race Idiot]

Yeah, it comes out in black and white.

It looks whack, dude.

 

[Shannon]

Sure it does.

 

[Race Idiot]

[americanism]Dude, totaly wack![/americanism]

 

[Race Idiot]

[americanism]Dude, totaly wack![/americanism]

Win2k with drivers has 256 as a minimum. Ive never got 16 on win2k without the drivers but it depends on the video card.

 

[Shannon]

[americanism]Dude, totaly wack![/americanism] [/B][/QUOTE]
:!::!::!::!::!::!:

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Race Idiot


[americanism]Dude, totaly wack![/americanism]

Win2k with drivers has 256 as a minimum. Ive never got 16 on win2k without the drivers but it depends on the video card.

I've never encountered safe mode with win2k....yet.

 

[Race Idiot]

Win2k is pretty stable, unless you shove really dodgy stuff onto it. The version of Nero I was using was an early pirate beta version.

 

[Robin2]

get XP, youll never get a blue screen.

 

[Race Idiot]

Heh I bet I can make XP bluscreen.
I bet if I install XP with my hard disks set-up incorrectly, I will get a bluescreen with the error "INACESSABLE BOOT DEVICE" but thats just being stupid.

 

[Robin2]

do it

 

[Race Idiot]

Your moe avatar is making me laugh.

I dont Run XP.
Maybe ill put it on a spare HDD for a as you would say a "burl"

 

[Shannon]

Does everybody besides me have XP!?

 

[Race Idiot]

Ive had it since its been out, got it from work. Legit copy never been used.

 

[Robin2]

Originally posted by Race Idiot


Your moe avatar is making me laugh.

I dont Run XP.
Maybe ill put it on a spare HDD for a as you would say a "burl"

yeah give it a burl. anything is worth a burl. if you dont give it a burl, youll never know

 

[Race Idiot]

You should give the Blue Screen Of Death A Burl.
Hard.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

More specifically, the BSOD appears whenever the Operating System kernel, or Hardware Abstraction Layer crashes. This is usually because of a hardware or hardware+driver fault, since the Kernel and the HAL are very good at coping with most of the nonsense that programmers and pirates throw at them.

 

[Race Idiot]

Yeah exactly that, I just have trouble remembering the terminology.

 

[Tom M]

Take a good look at my avatar. (Been around for a few days now, not for this thread.)

 

[Race Idiot]

So you dont like XP?
Or just Windows in general?

 

[AltF8]

Originally posted by Gil
If You haven't seen it count yourself lucky.
It exists and it's out to get us all.
My son, who is currently working on his A+ and CISCO certification says all Microsoft computers only need three keys on the keyboard...

CRTL, ALT, and Delete.

And, just for you, I present: