Why not a yellow screen of death

[trekkiedane]

Who still gets a BSOD? I mean honestly.

I saw it the other day on a ticket selling machine at the local station.

And the images of it keeps being 'newsworhty' on-line:

 

[Rii]

Who still gets a BSOD? I mean honestly.

There was that time I pulled the SATA cable out of the motherboard whilst the system was still up....

 

[Jadzia]

Unplugging usb without dismounting it has caused that for me before now. As can fitting in new hardware, or if IDE cables are loose.

 

[ITL]

When my previous PC was on it's last legs the memory strips were getting decidedly dodgy - and even after a reformat and fresh installation of XP the damn thing would BSOD on me with hardware errors from time to time.

Sometimes there'd be days between them, sometimes hours.

 

[drasche]

Who still gets a BSOD? I mean honestly.

I got one about two years ago on Windows 2000. Hardware failure

And now that I think about it, I also got one with Windows XP less than a year ago. It was an old PC with defective video drivers. I plugged a PCI video controller and the driver didn't like it at all.

 

[Jadzia]

Who still gets a BSOD? I mean honestly.

I got one about two years ago on Windows 2000. Hardware failure

And now that I think about it, I also got one with Windows XP less than a year ago. It was an old PC with defective video drivers. I plugged a PCI video controller and the driver didn't like it at all.

I've notived that when xp laptops run games software, they seem to have more bsods than your average desktop pc, which I expect is a derivative of the inferior graphics hardware.

 

[drasche]

I've notived that when xp laptops run games software, they seem to have more bsods than your average desktop pc, which I expect is a derivative of the inferior graphics hardware.

True, I had some trouble with games on my laptop at the time and almost gave up. Nothing as critical as a BSOD but error messages telling me it was time to upgrade my video drivers, which the laptop manufacturer didn't seem to provide. And when I used mainstream drivers from the video controller manufacturer, I had other problems so I switched back to the original drivers because working was more important than playing

 

[Gertch]

Who still gets a BSOD? I mean honestly.

One of the new programmers got one the other week. I think she's running Vista on an HP machine. We all just stood around and said "ooooh bsodeeeeee." They popped off the HD cable and put it back on and it was good to go.