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when ever i get it says beginning to dump pyschical memmory after reading the article i dont know if thats a good or bad thing?
The consumer versions of Windows have their own blue screen, but I've never seen the true Blue Screen of Death -- at least to my usage of the term. You get messages like 'The system is waiting for a program to complete, esc to continue or ctrl-alt-delete to reboot'. Generally the three fingered salute is the only effective way out, but one can gamely try the alternatives. Windows 3.1, if I recall correctly, would even do this for things like a floppy disk being ejected while a file was being accessed from the floppy. -- Belltower
Windows 98SE BSoD's on some occasions when reading off of removable media, ie cdrom and floppy, and the media is removed in the process, not very ammusing. -- Creaktop
Nice way to confuse elementary school kids...believe me, I've had experience with friends :P Ilyanep 20:11, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
As a reluctant Windows user (used to be a Mac user), I have seen what I always thought was called the blue screen of death far too many times--it's a common feature of all Windows systems, I thought. I've changed the article to reflect this. What I didn't know is that there are some people who restrict the usage only to the screen that occurs on Windows NT. Here's an example where programmers' usage and common usage might diverge, and where the article might usefully contain information about that divergence. Of course, I could just be confused. -- LMS
It is a silly distinction. Even the folks at Microsoft on the Windows 95 team called their version "blue screen of death", though they knew it was somewhat different from the NT version. The public certainly calls all of the Windows blue-screens that. --LDC (Who actually understands the number on the real NT BSoD)
I have one right now, and I'm tempted to try to fix it myself, though it doesn't seem like just a boot error. This is on one of my other computers, as this works. But the BSOD does slow you down, and Windows makes it irritibly confusing on some parts on fixing it. - Narf
Great job on recreating the BSODs! They looked like screenshots until I highlighted em :-) -- cprompt
Note : Today(10-jul-2005), both in IE 6.0 and FireFox 1.0.4 , the "screenshots" in the article have light gray background and black text. But the "screenshot" on this page looks right. xerces8@butn.net -- 193.77.139.53 14:09, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Here's the old "re-creation" of a 9x/Me BSoD that looks rather funky in Internet Explorer. I've swapped it out with a more compatible one. -- Minesweeper
Uhh...hate to burst your bubble but the statement "The following is a re-creation of a Windows NT/2000/XP BSoD: " would be untrue because Windows XP does not have a BSOD, it is a more annoying dialog box which makes the problem even worse. Ilyanep 18:52, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Comment from BSoD article: The Blue Screen of Death is extinct in the new Windows XP Professional OS
Why? What does it do instead? Never ever crash? Silently hang? Put up an advert for Windows XP: TNG? -- The Anome
I have XP and I get bluescreens like five times a day. Something is obviously extremely wrong, but I don't know what. Adam Bishop 02:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Windows has a BSOD.. it's just not one you can get out of. Stop errors aren't BSOD's, they are just, stop errors. I would show the BSOD, but I would have to get a digital camera out to take a picture of it. There are BSOD's you guys. Driver failure is common, but then that would involve a boot error, one of which I don't have, it is something else, and I have no idea right now. - Narf
Let me put it in plain terms. Windows XP Home, Media, and Pro have a BSOD. Microsoft even created a screensaver that mimics the actual BSOD you would get on your PC [3] I have gotten the BSOD on XP Meida center, but I don't think that an average user could do it. For me I wnet around adding bits and pieces to various system files and deleting bits and pieces from those files (as would happen if your hard drive were failing) and I got the BSOD. I had to re-install the OS to get it to work, but there is a BSOD. The average user will never get the BSOD because XP is very stable (not like 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, or NT). Think of it like this. Windows XP is the bomb shelter in the whitehouse, it would take a very powerfull bomb (error in XP) to break through that shelter (or cause the BSOD)-- Cadet hastings 13:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Any point in describing HTML and 0x... colors for white and blue? I'm sure people know what white and blue is. Ilyanep 22:36, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Remember the time that Bill Gates was demonstrating a new release of Windows for the press (I think it was 95) on an enormous projection screen, and got the BSoD? I think that this event should be referenced (and ideally supported with the photo I have seen) in this article. Matt gies 03:36, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I am using DELL PE 1600 Series where i have some softwares installed on that, i am getting the above error when i First time this had occurred when we connected the DLT tape to the system. After the system gave the Blue screen we disconnected the DLT.
when i try to connect again it has given blue dump again. The message displayed on the blue screen was "Kernel Stack Error".
Regards,
Kiran Kumar
Email: server.support@mphasis.com
Content from Blue screen of death. I don't think it adds anything new, but feel free to integrate it with the main article:
The 'Blue Screen of Death' (BSOD) is a text-only screen with white text displayed on a blue background: it is the response of the Microsoft Windows operating system to a major internal operating system inconsistency, the equivalent of a 'kernel panic' in UNIX-compatible systems.
The BSOD has been used as a symbol of the perceived lower reliability of the Windows operating environment compared to UNIX-compatible systems such as Linux.
I'm reverting user:The Anome's insertion of subtitles "Operating system crash" and "Application crash", because they are misleading: in Win9x/Me, BSoD's originate in the deepest parts of the operating system -- device drivers or the ring-0 part of the kernel. Terminating the current application is an (often vain) attempt to restore the system to a valid context, so that execution can continue. -- Tim Starling 13:41 May 1, 2003 (UTC)
Can someone confirm this easter egg? I tried it in Windows XP SP2 and I don't see the blank blue page. I'm assuming this might just relate to a specific version of IE, if so could someone add the specific version to the article. AlistairMcMillan 18:45, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work for me, im using IE version 6.0.2900.2180 on XP Home. I tried both about:mozilla and about: mozilla, just to see if it works. Can anyone confirm this? Firestorm 23:16, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
Ah... the new MediaWiki seems mess up the originally intended BSOD recreation on the article. Any proposals on what to do? -- WB June 29, 2005 07:12 (UTC)
-- Jordi· ✆ 12:18, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
-- Jordi· ✆ 12:24, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Anyone know what the web color for the gray box that appears at the top of the BSoD in 95/98/Me in which Windows is written? I'm assuming it is a web color and that the color is consistent in the different operating systems. Theshibboleth 8 July 2005 15:08 (UTC)
The title of this article is incorrect in that the term "Blue Screen of Death" is a name and so must be properly capitalized. The title, "Blue screen of death, should be changed to "Blue Screen of Death", and the article moved to that page. -- Mb1000 00:04, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I know this is not the right place to ask for help regarding my BSoD but I am just trying my luck if someone among you, folks, may help. There are plenty of technical troubleshooting on the web (including on Microsoft website) on how to fix it but my case is a bit different.
It all started when I first upgraded from Windows ME to XP. After rebooting the system, I got the BSoD and never could recover it. The problem is that I can't access the BIOS in order to boot from a CD and try to install Linux instead and therefore get rid of Windows problems. The BIOS is protected by a password that I don't have! Maybe clearing the CMOS jumpers or reset the BIOS by removing the CMOS battery for a while would work?
If not, would I need a Operating Disk System from the manufacturer to boot from? Or maybe, the best idea is to sue Microsoft?
My email is Szvest@gmail.com in case you feel sorry for my case ;). Cheers in advance. Svest 20:21, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
The Windows ME version of the BSOD is not entirely identical to the Windows 9x BSOD. The ME BSOD usually follows this format:
I believe this should be addressed on this page in some form - the current version is misleading in that it represents the ME BSOD the same way as the 9x BSOD.
Is it really necessary to have full-width screenshots for all these?! Trollderella 23:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Looks like someone just starts a edit war before discuss. -- Mateusc 00:39, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
-- Mateusc 00:49, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
It has been proposed that articles on various other screens of death be merged into this article. These other articles include:
Mateusc brought this dispute to my attention, with the worry that a decision was going to be rushed on this topic. I agree; let's not merge the articles over his/her objections, quite yet.
Would anyone care to summarize the arguments for and objections to merging these articles, preferably without directly addressing the opposition? - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 23:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Please note: I will be formatting comments here for clarity. - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 00:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
(quoted from above): Just to summarize the argument, the possible reasons for a merger are simply and eloquently outlined at Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages#Why merge a page? -- anetode ¹ ² ³ 03:43, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I disagree and looks like 7 other people also. -- Mateusc 23:40, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to cite the other reasons listed at WP:MM as I think they also apply.
Those screens of death are on different topic: e.g. YSoD is about application-level errors (I wrote that article, so maybe I'm biased), while others are about kernel panics under different (variants of) operating systems. -- minghong 00:11, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I came here from the RFC. I agree that the other SoDs should be merged with BSoD for the reason InShanee outlined: the BSoD is a cultural icon and can easily be expanded to an interesting, encyclopedic article. However, I do not feel that the others have the same detail and they belong best as a subcategory of BSoD's article, with a redirect of course. Kit 00:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Since the above discussion seems to have devolved into a confused flamewar, I'm placing my response to the RfC in a separate section.
-- Carnildo 00:39, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Well, I think it might be a good idea to do a straw poll. - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 00:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Please explain what you're proposing if you sign here.
My reasoning:
These are just my thoughts.— Kbolino 03:40, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Consider this a vote in agreement with InShaneee, K1Bond007, et al., and in opposition to those who argue that the articles should exist separately.— Kbolino 03:56, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry I've been a bit inattentive, but it seems like this has died down a bit. With pretty much every interested party weighing in, here's my suggested resolution to this debate.
I haven't seen any argument that anything but the Blue screen of death is a significant cultural phenomenon in its own right. The closest thing would be the RSoD being anxiously scarfed up by people desparate for Vista news, and the 360SoD likewise, but for Xbox 360 news.
What do you think? - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 20:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
If you support the entirety of this proposal, sign here.
If you support only part of this proposal, sign here and explain what parts you object to.
If you object to the entirety of this proposal, sign here and please explain why.
Can anyone confirm the validity of the Vista BSoD? I did a google search, and so far it seems to look exactly like the Windows XP BSoD. -- Akhristov 01:07, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
There is also another Windows Vista BSoD which occurs due to a fault shortly before installation commences. I shall upload a screenshot shortly.
The blue screen of death is the only widely known screen of death, and the only one likely to be significant as an article by itself. I believe that most users looking up a screen of death, other than the BSOD, would most likely be looking out of curiosity about colored screens of death in general. If that is true, then the best thing to do would be to create a single article "Colored screens of death", and have each existing article redirect to its part in the main article. Few SOD's would make an article by themselves, but all of them together could constitute a decent article. What are you're opinions? -- kenb215 01:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Catagories it under screens of death and have links at the bottom with a big catagory for microsoft. Do not merge. -- A dam1213 Talk + 10:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Also put back * Microsoft Announces Ads for BSOD but as * Microsoft Announces Ads for BSOD (joke). -- A dam1213 Talk + 10:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Now that this article has actual images of BSoDs, I don't think the text recreations are needed anymore. Presumably, the reason for having them in text in the first place was the difficulty of capturing a screenshot. Thoughts? Evil saltine 05:11, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
The article says "The blue screen of death in one form or another has been present in all Windows operating systems since Windows version 3.1 until about 2001 with the release of Windows XP." I interpret that as "In 2001, with the release of Windows XP, all BSoD's in the world were completely eradicated and they can not be seen anymore since then", which is totally wrong. I think a rephrase is needed. aditsu 10:10, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
I have moved the re-creations to Blue Screen of Death/Re-creations; We don't need the big re-creations on the page anymore (who consumed much space), we have already screenshots. -- Off! 12:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I have a suggestion - renaming to a title that not "attacks" Microsoft Windows - such as " STOP error" or " Windows software errors", with a reference to the blue screen of death. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Screen of Death. Fdp 17:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
This was on VFD and was speedy kept. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 03:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Who put the POV-check on this article? Why? Please explain it below! Freedom to share 19:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Although I didn't place it on there, it does kind of seem like it isn't very neutral. Would you really see an article called Blue Screen of Death in a real encyclopedia? In any case, it's most referred to as this, and people seeking information on it will probably type in Blue Screen of Death or BSoD. Robot Chicken 20:21, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
I think a one-word fix in the intro can cover NPOV worries. Wikipedia Is not Paper, and the article obviously has broad support. Ethan Mitchell 00:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Have these articles:
-Microsoft software errors
Xbox 360 BSoD RSoD Some Black SoD
-Software errors in applications
TiVo YSoD Some Black SoD
This simplifies items. Black Screen of Death article would have:
"The content you are looking for:
< Content 1
Content 2 >"
This is a content junction, which is a basic redirect to 2 pages (with a junction page, like Black Screen of Death)
- Tracker 01:12, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
One of the really common errors that seems to show up on bluescreens is "A fatal exception 0E has occured." So what is "fatal exception 0E"? I think I also saw a 0D earlier today, at an address that was all 0's. So while we're at it, what's 0D? Linguofreak 01:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Recently I have created a list of messages displayed on the BSoD, yet it was speedily deleted. I agreed with that as it was not the best article quality (I know, I am ashamed of even putting it there )-:) Yet I seriously think we should compile another one of those as it would bring the BSoD article up to FAC status. Anyone willing to help? Freedom to share 19:18, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Freedom to share 19:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
This event could not go unmentioned! So I added it to the article. One thing though... If you look closely at the video, the BSoD seems to float in from the side rather than simply popping onto the screen. Furthermore, when the BSoD appears there are still some icons at the bottom, i.e. the BSoD does not cover the whole screen. I've never seen or heard of the BSoD exhibiting these behaviours. Of course they might be an artifact of the ancient Litepro they were using at the time; although I'm inclined to think the whole event was a gag (known to Gates, or not.) Anybody heard anything? I'm too lazy to go trawling through forums for any opinions or info. -- Jquarry 00:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I have removed this bit:
At the time (April 20, 1998), Windows 98 was in a so-called "late beta", and it shipped three months later! There's no possible way one could describe this as an "early development stage" for an OS. -- Saforrest 13:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
When the screen of death appears, on windows 95 or later, does it change to DOS mode when the screen of death appears?
No... Not to my knowledge. I've never recieved a command prompt after a bluescreen. Linguofreak 02:32, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Has anyone got the Linux operating system? If they have, have a look to see if you have a screensaver called BSOD. This emulates other operating systems' "blue screens of death". It may be interesting to add that to the article if someone can think of what to write! -- Stwalkerster 21:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
This doesn't look like a real BSoD! It should be removed, since it is not a real example. We don't want people to think it's real. It is NOT the bluescreen.
"The Blue Screen of Death (sometimes called "bluescreen", "stop error" or just abbreviated as "BSoD") is a popular name for the screen displayed by Microsoft's Windows operating system when it cannot recover from, or is in danger of being unable to recover from, a system error." The only difference consists in the fact that this particular BSoD is not very useful to treat the problem that just occured. Well, unless you can read binary (which I think the output on there is), in which case it might be vital. (But not many people can read it) Freedom to share 19:49, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
"The simplest version of the blue screen occurs in Windows CE, but not in Windows CE for Pocket PC. " I have seen a bsod a few times on both my old PocketPC 3.0 (HP Jornada 548) and my newer PocketPC 2002 (HP Jornada 568). So this info seems to be incorrect. Lofote 23:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
When going here, I saw that the BSoD for Win 9x is only in the form of a textual link, no actual blue background or anything. I tried editting the page to try and fix this, but it doesn't seem to work no matter what I throw at it. All others load just fine. Refreshing the page didn't work and trying several variants didn't work. I'm not sure if this is my browser causing this (Firefox 1.5.0.6), or if there's something wrong not on my end. If I click the text-only link, it loads just fine and I can see it that way, but it doesn't appear at all on the main document. Ulillillia 09:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Isn't the official name of it the "blue screen error"? 67.188.172.165 17:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
If we are going to talk about red then someone needs to write more about the green screen error on windows. I have seen this myself twice in 3 years of work with windows XP machines. It's much less common than blue errors like UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME but someone should substantiate it more. I added in what I know but someone should clean it up.
Dave
Why did someone delete my edit related to the green screen error in windows? If you are going to remove my edit please at least give a reason. srtgfhsdfhsdgadsfasdffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffc
No trace on Google. (Searched for "Green Screen XP -site:wikipedia.org"). Original had a link to a Photoshopped image as an example. You decide if it should be added on again:
A green screen error also occurs in Windows XP much less frequently than a blue screen error (about 1% as common). This error seems to be a high level kernel panic of some sort. It is fixable with a destructive reinstallation of windows.
BCube| c| t 16:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Alright, thank you for being formal about it. All I know is that I have seen the green screen kernal panic and so have at least two of my associates who work at a computer technical helpdesk on this college campus. Over two and one half years I have seen two instances of it vs about 100 or 200 blue screen manifestations. Since it is so uncommon perhaps it doesn't even deserve to be put in the article anyways, but someone should really contact Microsoft technical support and i'm certain if you spoke with a high level tech(probably not the front line flunkies) then you would hear something intereting about the error.
-Dave
The article says in the red screen section that the screen can also be found (but rarely) in versions of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system. If that screen exist, is it similar to the following screen that have black text and red background? -- COstop 22:19, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
In my many, many years of repairing Windows based PC's, I've only encountered the Windows 98 "red screen of death" twice in my life. I can't recall if it's similar to that screen or if it was a red background with white text, but it sure as heck shocked everyone in the room. Both times I encountered it was after replacing an older motherboard with a newer ACPI motherboard. 24.36.153.235 21:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I recieved a red screen in Windows XP Oct, 19th 2006 1:28am repeatedly after nv4disp.dll became damaged and was causing my video card to enter infinite loops.
driver reinstalled fixed it, but I don't see the red screen mentioned for XP, it is definitely there. 70.13.185.196
Do we really need " References to the Blue Screen of Death" to rival the article in length? – Mipadi 00:40, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
This section is becoming obnoxiously long. A few prominent references make sense, but numerous references to obscure pop culture elements add little to the article, and even detract from it. Let's try to weed out the cruft while keeping the major references. – Mipadi 19:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Honestly, is a pay phone a notable example of BSoD? I think a Windows PC is at least 100x more likely to have the BSoD, so shouldn't we use such a picture? Scepia 01:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
This article uses salon.com as a reference. A concern has been raised about the reliability of salon.com. You can read the following discussion and comment if you like. See Talk:Salon.com/as_a_source_for_Wikipedia. Andries 04:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Sup girls, this is the blue screen of death that appears in Half Life 2 in the teleporter room. In the retail version of the game the text was hella blurry and couldnt be read, in the cinematic version its a lot sharper.
Does anybody here know a solution for my frequently crash breakdown??? (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA) -- Walter Humala |wanna Talk? 01:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I have also heared the term "White Screen (of Death)" for when a program eats up all system resources. // Liftarn
I wonder why there is no option to return to Windows or restart the computer using Ctrl+Alt+Del in the Windows NT/2000/XP "blue screen". Is there any such options in Vista RTM? Cncccer 17:02, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Is there any connection between the name of The Blue Screen of Death and Poe's The Masque of the Red Death? -- The NeveR SLeePiNG 14:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Removed from the article:
Um... it's a big computer with a giant screen that happens to be blue. No writing on it, either, as far as I can remember. Also, the NES game came out in 1988, which is a tiny bit earlier than Windows 95. -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 15:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
On the 31st, I saw a Black screen of death on the nintendo Wii It wasn't serious, but the wii system made weird noises when I botted it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.46.20 ( talk) 06:33, February 1, 2007
Same thing happen to my Sega Gens(but it was blue),o_o when I was playing Rolo to the Rescue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.71.51.150 ( talk) 16:34, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
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when ever i get it says beginning to dump pyschical memmory after reading the article i dont know if thats a good or bad thing?
The consumer versions of Windows have their own blue screen, but I've never seen the true Blue Screen of Death -- at least to my usage of the term. You get messages like 'The system is waiting for a program to complete, esc to continue or ctrl-alt-delete to reboot'. Generally the three fingered salute is the only effective way out, but one can gamely try the alternatives. Windows 3.1, if I recall correctly, would even do this for things like a floppy disk being ejected while a file was being accessed from the floppy. -- Belltower
Windows 98SE BSoD's on some occasions when reading off of removable media, ie cdrom and floppy, and the media is removed in the process, not very ammusing. -- Creaktop
Nice way to confuse elementary school kids...believe me, I've had experience with friends :P Ilyanep 20:11, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
As a reluctant Windows user (used to be a Mac user), I have seen what I always thought was called the blue screen of death far too many times--it's a common feature of all Windows systems, I thought. I've changed the article to reflect this. What I didn't know is that there are some people who restrict the usage only to the screen that occurs on Windows NT. Here's an example where programmers' usage and common usage might diverge, and where the article might usefully contain information about that divergence. Of course, I could just be confused. -- LMS
It is a silly distinction. Even the folks at Microsoft on the Windows 95 team called their version "blue screen of death", though they knew it was somewhat different from the NT version. The public certainly calls all of the Windows blue-screens that. --LDC (Who actually understands the number on the real NT BSoD)
I have one right now, and I'm tempted to try to fix it myself, though it doesn't seem like just a boot error. This is on one of my other computers, as this works. But the BSOD does slow you down, and Windows makes it irritibly confusing on some parts on fixing it. - Narf
Great job on recreating the BSODs! They looked like screenshots until I highlighted em :-) -- cprompt
Note : Today(10-jul-2005), both in IE 6.0 and FireFox 1.0.4 , the "screenshots" in the article have light gray background and black text. But the "screenshot" on this page looks right. xerces8@butn.net -- 193.77.139.53 14:09, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Here's the old "re-creation" of a 9x/Me BSoD that looks rather funky in Internet Explorer. I've swapped it out with a more compatible one. -- Minesweeper
Uhh...hate to burst your bubble but the statement "The following is a re-creation of a Windows NT/2000/XP BSoD: " would be untrue because Windows XP does not have a BSOD, it is a more annoying dialog box which makes the problem even worse. Ilyanep 18:52, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Comment from BSoD article: The Blue Screen of Death is extinct in the new Windows XP Professional OS
Why? What does it do instead? Never ever crash? Silently hang? Put up an advert for Windows XP: TNG? -- The Anome
I have XP and I get bluescreens like five times a day. Something is obviously extremely wrong, but I don't know what. Adam Bishop 02:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Windows has a BSOD.. it's just not one you can get out of. Stop errors aren't BSOD's, they are just, stop errors. I would show the BSOD, but I would have to get a digital camera out to take a picture of it. There are BSOD's you guys. Driver failure is common, but then that would involve a boot error, one of which I don't have, it is something else, and I have no idea right now. - Narf
Let me put it in plain terms. Windows XP Home, Media, and Pro have a BSOD. Microsoft even created a screensaver that mimics the actual BSOD you would get on your PC [3] I have gotten the BSOD on XP Meida center, but I don't think that an average user could do it. For me I wnet around adding bits and pieces to various system files and deleting bits and pieces from those files (as would happen if your hard drive were failing) and I got the BSOD. I had to re-install the OS to get it to work, but there is a BSOD. The average user will never get the BSOD because XP is very stable (not like 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, or NT). Think of it like this. Windows XP is the bomb shelter in the whitehouse, it would take a very powerfull bomb (error in XP) to break through that shelter (or cause the BSOD)-- Cadet hastings 13:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Any point in describing HTML and 0x... colors for white and blue? I'm sure people know what white and blue is. Ilyanep 22:36, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Remember the time that Bill Gates was demonstrating a new release of Windows for the press (I think it was 95) on an enormous projection screen, and got the BSoD? I think that this event should be referenced (and ideally supported with the photo I have seen) in this article. Matt gies 03:36, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I am using DELL PE 1600 Series where i have some softwares installed on that, i am getting the above error when i First time this had occurred when we connected the DLT tape to the system. After the system gave the Blue screen we disconnected the DLT.
when i try to connect again it has given blue dump again. The message displayed on the blue screen was "Kernel Stack Error".
Regards,
Kiran Kumar
Email: server.support@mphasis.com
Content from Blue screen of death. I don't think it adds anything new, but feel free to integrate it with the main article:
The 'Blue Screen of Death' (BSOD) is a text-only screen with white text displayed on a blue background: it is the response of the Microsoft Windows operating system to a major internal operating system inconsistency, the equivalent of a 'kernel panic' in UNIX-compatible systems.
The BSOD has been used as a symbol of the perceived lower reliability of the Windows operating environment compared to UNIX-compatible systems such as Linux.
I'm reverting user:The Anome's insertion of subtitles "Operating system crash" and "Application crash", because they are misleading: in Win9x/Me, BSoD's originate in the deepest parts of the operating system -- device drivers or the ring-0 part of the kernel. Terminating the current application is an (often vain) attempt to restore the system to a valid context, so that execution can continue. -- Tim Starling 13:41 May 1, 2003 (UTC)
Can someone confirm this easter egg? I tried it in Windows XP SP2 and I don't see the blank blue page. I'm assuming this might just relate to a specific version of IE, if so could someone add the specific version to the article. AlistairMcMillan 18:45, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work for me, im using IE version 6.0.2900.2180 on XP Home. I tried both about:mozilla and about: mozilla, just to see if it works. Can anyone confirm this? Firestorm 23:16, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
Ah... the new MediaWiki seems mess up the originally intended BSOD recreation on the article. Any proposals on what to do? -- WB June 29, 2005 07:12 (UTC)
-- Jordi· ✆ 12:18, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
-- Jordi· ✆ 12:24, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Anyone know what the web color for the gray box that appears at the top of the BSoD in 95/98/Me in which Windows is written? I'm assuming it is a web color and that the color is consistent in the different operating systems. Theshibboleth 8 July 2005 15:08 (UTC)
The title of this article is incorrect in that the term "Blue Screen of Death" is a name and so must be properly capitalized. The title, "Blue screen of death, should be changed to "Blue Screen of Death", and the article moved to that page. -- Mb1000 00:04, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I know this is not the right place to ask for help regarding my BSoD but I am just trying my luck if someone among you, folks, may help. There are plenty of technical troubleshooting on the web (including on Microsoft website) on how to fix it but my case is a bit different.
It all started when I first upgraded from Windows ME to XP. After rebooting the system, I got the BSoD and never could recover it. The problem is that I can't access the BIOS in order to boot from a CD and try to install Linux instead and therefore get rid of Windows problems. The BIOS is protected by a password that I don't have! Maybe clearing the CMOS jumpers or reset the BIOS by removing the CMOS battery for a while would work?
If not, would I need a Operating Disk System from the manufacturer to boot from? Or maybe, the best idea is to sue Microsoft?
My email is Szvest@gmail.com in case you feel sorry for my case ;). Cheers in advance. Svest 20:21, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
The Windows ME version of the BSOD is not entirely identical to the Windows 9x BSOD. The ME BSOD usually follows this format:
I believe this should be addressed on this page in some form - the current version is misleading in that it represents the ME BSOD the same way as the 9x BSOD.
Is it really necessary to have full-width screenshots for all these?! Trollderella 23:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Looks like someone just starts a edit war before discuss. -- Mateusc 00:39, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
-- Mateusc 00:49, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
It has been proposed that articles on various other screens of death be merged into this article. These other articles include:
Mateusc brought this dispute to my attention, with the worry that a decision was going to be rushed on this topic. I agree; let's not merge the articles over his/her objections, quite yet.
Would anyone care to summarize the arguments for and objections to merging these articles, preferably without directly addressing the opposition? - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 23:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Please note: I will be formatting comments here for clarity. - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 00:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
(quoted from above): Just to summarize the argument, the possible reasons for a merger are simply and eloquently outlined at Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages#Why merge a page? -- anetode ¹ ² ³ 03:43, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I disagree and looks like 7 other people also. -- Mateusc 23:40, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to cite the other reasons listed at WP:MM as I think they also apply.
Those screens of death are on different topic: e.g. YSoD is about application-level errors (I wrote that article, so maybe I'm biased), while others are about kernel panics under different (variants of) operating systems. -- minghong 00:11, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I came here from the RFC. I agree that the other SoDs should be merged with BSoD for the reason InShanee outlined: the BSoD is a cultural icon and can easily be expanded to an interesting, encyclopedic article. However, I do not feel that the others have the same detail and they belong best as a subcategory of BSoD's article, with a redirect of course. Kit 00:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Since the above discussion seems to have devolved into a confused flamewar, I'm placing my response to the RfC in a separate section.
-- Carnildo 00:39, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Well, I think it might be a good idea to do a straw poll. - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 00:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Please explain what you're proposing if you sign here.
My reasoning:
These are just my thoughts.— Kbolino 03:40, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Consider this a vote in agreement with InShaneee, K1Bond007, et al., and in opposition to those who argue that the articles should exist separately.— Kbolino 03:56, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry I've been a bit inattentive, but it seems like this has died down a bit. With pretty much every interested party weighing in, here's my suggested resolution to this debate.
I haven't seen any argument that anything but the Blue screen of death is a significant cultural phenomenon in its own right. The closest thing would be the RSoD being anxiously scarfed up by people desparate for Vista news, and the 360SoD likewise, but for Xbox 360 news.
What do you think? - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 20:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
If you support the entirety of this proposal, sign here.
If you support only part of this proposal, sign here and explain what parts you object to.
If you object to the entirety of this proposal, sign here and please explain why.
Can anyone confirm the validity of the Vista BSoD? I did a google search, and so far it seems to look exactly like the Windows XP BSoD. -- Akhristov 01:07, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
There is also another Windows Vista BSoD which occurs due to a fault shortly before installation commences. I shall upload a screenshot shortly.
The blue screen of death is the only widely known screen of death, and the only one likely to be significant as an article by itself. I believe that most users looking up a screen of death, other than the BSOD, would most likely be looking out of curiosity about colored screens of death in general. If that is true, then the best thing to do would be to create a single article "Colored screens of death", and have each existing article redirect to its part in the main article. Few SOD's would make an article by themselves, but all of them together could constitute a decent article. What are you're opinions? -- kenb215 01:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Catagories it under screens of death and have links at the bottom with a big catagory for microsoft. Do not merge. -- A dam1213 Talk + 10:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Also put back * Microsoft Announces Ads for BSOD but as * Microsoft Announces Ads for BSOD (joke). -- A dam1213 Talk + 10:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Now that this article has actual images of BSoDs, I don't think the text recreations are needed anymore. Presumably, the reason for having them in text in the first place was the difficulty of capturing a screenshot. Thoughts? Evil saltine 05:11, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
The article says "The blue screen of death in one form or another has been present in all Windows operating systems since Windows version 3.1 until about 2001 with the release of Windows XP." I interpret that as "In 2001, with the release of Windows XP, all BSoD's in the world were completely eradicated and they can not be seen anymore since then", which is totally wrong. I think a rephrase is needed. aditsu 10:10, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
I have moved the re-creations to Blue Screen of Death/Re-creations; We don't need the big re-creations on the page anymore (who consumed much space), we have already screenshots. -- Off! 12:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I have a suggestion - renaming to a title that not "attacks" Microsoft Windows - such as " STOP error" or " Windows software errors", with a reference to the blue screen of death. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Screen of Death. Fdp 17:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
This was on VFD and was speedy kept. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 03:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Who put the POV-check on this article? Why? Please explain it below! Freedom to share 19:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Although I didn't place it on there, it does kind of seem like it isn't very neutral. Would you really see an article called Blue Screen of Death in a real encyclopedia? In any case, it's most referred to as this, and people seeking information on it will probably type in Blue Screen of Death or BSoD. Robot Chicken 20:21, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
I think a one-word fix in the intro can cover NPOV worries. Wikipedia Is not Paper, and the article obviously has broad support. Ethan Mitchell 00:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Have these articles:
-Microsoft software errors
Xbox 360 BSoD RSoD Some Black SoD
-Software errors in applications
TiVo YSoD Some Black SoD
This simplifies items. Black Screen of Death article would have:
"The content you are looking for:
< Content 1
Content 2 >"
This is a content junction, which is a basic redirect to 2 pages (with a junction page, like Black Screen of Death)
- Tracker 01:12, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
One of the really common errors that seems to show up on bluescreens is "A fatal exception 0E has occured." So what is "fatal exception 0E"? I think I also saw a 0D earlier today, at an address that was all 0's. So while we're at it, what's 0D? Linguofreak 01:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Recently I have created a list of messages displayed on the BSoD, yet it was speedily deleted. I agreed with that as it was not the best article quality (I know, I am ashamed of even putting it there )-:) Yet I seriously think we should compile another one of those as it would bring the BSoD article up to FAC status. Anyone willing to help? Freedom to share 19:18, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Freedom to share 19:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
This event could not go unmentioned! So I added it to the article. One thing though... If you look closely at the video, the BSoD seems to float in from the side rather than simply popping onto the screen. Furthermore, when the BSoD appears there are still some icons at the bottom, i.e. the BSoD does not cover the whole screen. I've never seen or heard of the BSoD exhibiting these behaviours. Of course they might be an artifact of the ancient Litepro they were using at the time; although I'm inclined to think the whole event was a gag (known to Gates, or not.) Anybody heard anything? I'm too lazy to go trawling through forums for any opinions or info. -- Jquarry 00:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I have removed this bit:
At the time (April 20, 1998), Windows 98 was in a so-called "late beta", and it shipped three months later! There's no possible way one could describe this as an "early development stage" for an OS. -- Saforrest 13:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
When the screen of death appears, on windows 95 or later, does it change to DOS mode when the screen of death appears?
No... Not to my knowledge. I've never recieved a command prompt after a bluescreen. Linguofreak 02:32, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Has anyone got the Linux operating system? If they have, have a look to see if you have a screensaver called BSOD. This emulates other operating systems' "blue screens of death". It may be interesting to add that to the article if someone can think of what to write! -- Stwalkerster 21:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
This doesn't look like a real BSoD! It should be removed, since it is not a real example. We don't want people to think it's real. It is NOT the bluescreen.
"The Blue Screen of Death (sometimes called "bluescreen", "stop error" or just abbreviated as "BSoD") is a popular name for the screen displayed by Microsoft's Windows operating system when it cannot recover from, or is in danger of being unable to recover from, a system error." The only difference consists in the fact that this particular BSoD is not very useful to treat the problem that just occured. Well, unless you can read binary (which I think the output on there is), in which case it might be vital. (But not many people can read it) Freedom to share 19:49, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
"The simplest version of the blue screen occurs in Windows CE, but not in Windows CE for Pocket PC. " I have seen a bsod a few times on both my old PocketPC 3.0 (HP Jornada 548) and my newer PocketPC 2002 (HP Jornada 568). So this info seems to be incorrect. Lofote 23:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
When going here, I saw that the BSoD for Win 9x is only in the form of a textual link, no actual blue background or anything. I tried editting the page to try and fix this, but it doesn't seem to work no matter what I throw at it. All others load just fine. Refreshing the page didn't work and trying several variants didn't work. I'm not sure if this is my browser causing this (Firefox 1.5.0.6), or if there's something wrong not on my end. If I click the text-only link, it loads just fine and I can see it that way, but it doesn't appear at all on the main document. Ulillillia 09:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Isn't the official name of it the "blue screen error"? 67.188.172.165 17:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
If we are going to talk about red then someone needs to write more about the green screen error on windows. I have seen this myself twice in 3 years of work with windows XP machines. It's much less common than blue errors like UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME but someone should substantiate it more. I added in what I know but someone should clean it up.
Dave
Why did someone delete my edit related to the green screen error in windows? If you are going to remove my edit please at least give a reason. srtgfhsdfhsdgadsfasdffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffc
No trace on Google. (Searched for "Green Screen XP -site:wikipedia.org"). Original had a link to a Photoshopped image as an example. You decide if it should be added on again:
A green screen error also occurs in Windows XP much less frequently than a blue screen error (about 1% as common). This error seems to be a high level kernel panic of some sort. It is fixable with a destructive reinstallation of windows.
BCube| c| t 16:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Alright, thank you for being formal about it. All I know is that I have seen the green screen kernal panic and so have at least two of my associates who work at a computer technical helpdesk on this college campus. Over two and one half years I have seen two instances of it vs about 100 or 200 blue screen manifestations. Since it is so uncommon perhaps it doesn't even deserve to be put in the article anyways, but someone should really contact Microsoft technical support and i'm certain if you spoke with a high level tech(probably not the front line flunkies) then you would hear something intereting about the error.
-Dave
The article says in the red screen section that the screen can also be found (but rarely) in versions of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system. If that screen exist, is it similar to the following screen that have black text and red background? -- COstop 22:19, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
In my many, many years of repairing Windows based PC's, I've only encountered the Windows 98 "red screen of death" twice in my life. I can't recall if it's similar to that screen or if it was a red background with white text, but it sure as heck shocked everyone in the room. Both times I encountered it was after replacing an older motherboard with a newer ACPI motherboard. 24.36.153.235 21:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I recieved a red screen in Windows XP Oct, 19th 2006 1:28am repeatedly after nv4disp.dll became damaged and was causing my video card to enter infinite loops.
driver reinstalled fixed it, but I don't see the red screen mentioned for XP, it is definitely there. 70.13.185.196
Do we really need " References to the Blue Screen of Death" to rival the article in length? – Mipadi 00:40, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
This section is becoming obnoxiously long. A few prominent references make sense, but numerous references to obscure pop culture elements add little to the article, and even detract from it. Let's try to weed out the cruft while keeping the major references. – Mipadi 19:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Honestly, is a pay phone a notable example of BSoD? I think a Windows PC is at least 100x more likely to have the BSoD, so shouldn't we use such a picture? Scepia 01:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
This article uses salon.com as a reference. A concern has been raised about the reliability of salon.com. You can read the following discussion and comment if you like. See Talk:Salon.com/as_a_source_for_Wikipedia. Andries 04:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Sup girls, this is the blue screen of death that appears in Half Life 2 in the teleporter room. In the retail version of the game the text was hella blurry and couldnt be read, in the cinematic version its a lot sharper.
Does anybody here know a solution for my frequently crash breakdown??? (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA) -- Walter Humala |wanna Talk? 01:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I have also heared the term "White Screen (of Death)" for when a program eats up all system resources. // Liftarn
I wonder why there is no option to return to Windows or restart the computer using Ctrl+Alt+Del in the Windows NT/2000/XP "blue screen". Is there any such options in Vista RTM? Cncccer 17:02, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Is there any connection between the name of The Blue Screen of Death and Poe's The Masque of the Red Death? -- The NeveR SLeePiNG 14:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Removed from the article:
Um... it's a big computer with a giant screen that happens to be blue. No writing on it, either, as far as I can remember. Also, the NES game came out in 1988, which is a tiny bit earlier than Windows 95. -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 15:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
On the 31st, I saw a Black screen of death on the nintendo Wii It wasn't serious, but the wii system made weird noises when I botted it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.46.20 ( talk) 06:33, February 1, 2007
Same thing happen to my Sega Gens(but it was blue),o_o when I was playing Rolo to the Rescue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.71.51.150 ( talk) 16:34, 26 April 2011 (UTC)