Blue Screen of Death Top 10
The now infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has been around since Windows 3.1. However, by chance, this screen made an appearance back in Windows 1.0! Have we finally discovered the original origins of this beast! There are many causes for this error: Bad DLL's, incorrect device drivers, bad memory, damaged registry, etc. This error has become less predominant in later years. Receiving such an error now, is much more serious than it used to be in the Windows 3.1/95/98 days. Below are some of the Top 10 Blue Screen of Death images! Some of these might be fake images, unless I was to take them myself how could I be sure obviously. Enjoy!
- Blue screen of death on a subway car.
- Blue Screen of Death in New York City
- With the introduction of the x86 processor to Mac, Blue Screen of Death has finally come to Macintosh!
- Blue screen of Death at an airport.
- Fidelity gets a visit from the Blue Screen of Death.

- I hate seeing the Blue Screen of Death in airports.
- World Famous Windows 98 Blue Screen of Death. This one occurred back at COMDEX, April 20th, 1998. "So I'm just going to go ahead and plug in the new device. You'll notice that this scanner... Wow!.. Moving right along..." "That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet."
- Not only are Macintosh laptops getting this great Blue Screen of Death upgrade!
- Even your public phone and Internet portal systems receive visits from the Blue Screen of Death.

- Finally.. The Original Blue Screen of Death in Windows 1.0! Although this is not the true "Blue Screen of Death", it is funny to see this happened even back in the day! The origins of the blue screen....

Bonus Blue Screen of Death Images
Bonus Tips and Tricks
- Did you know typing into Internet Explorer Version 4 through 7 "about:mozilla" in the address bar would cause a BSoD (well, humor me here, its just a blue screen, but still funny).
- If the above doesn't work, you are running Windows XP SP2, so type: "res://mshtml.dll/about.moz" and you will get it!










You really need to find the Gates presentation when his demo machine BSoDs. That has to be a top 10.
Posted by: Hagrin | October 13, 2006 at 11:49 AM
haha!
I tryed to withdraw money from an atm and i used the incorect pin. so i pressed all the buttons as fast as i could and it crashed haha. not windows but still. got a pic of the screen on my phone :D
Posted by: James H | October 13, 2006 at 11:58 AM
BSOD is Teh Win hahah arr matey [-_\]
Yee missed the giant times square picture, I'll see if I can dig it up.
You also missed the BSOD t-shirt worn by large chested women!
Posted by: Atari | October 13, 2006 at 12:09 PM
Put the blue screen on my phone and then freeked my mate out. (A GEEK)
Posted by: Mobile360 | October 13, 2006 at 12:11 PM
it should be noted that a Mac doesn't get a BSOD unless its running windows
Posted by: Graeme43 | October 13, 2006 at 12:12 PM
Numbers 1 and 2 are not very precise... number 1 is a commuter train in Buenos Aires, Argentina (i use it every day!); and number 2 is clearly some place different from US... the cars are european brands (Ford, Renault, etc) plus license plates seem european too!
Posted by: Fred | October 13, 2006 at 12:14 PM
I once saw a Blue Screen of death in Walmart on the Self-service checkout registers... you know, where you scan your own food.
Posted by: Mark Starr | October 13, 2006 at 12:15 PM
here is the scoop
when i see these types of post s it tells me one thing
the person who posted the topic and the people who had the blue screen have no clue on how to install device drivers correctly
lets say this much, it does not say much about your intelect
Posted by: nobody | October 13, 2006 at 12:16 PM
Funny stuff, nice collecton :)
Posted by: _asais | October 13, 2006 at 12:17 PM
I'm pretty sure #7 is when they are demo-ing the USB functionality of Windows 98, not 95... If I remember correctly the words out of the guy on the left's mouth were "You'll notice that this scanner will... woooaaahhhh"... *crowd bursts out laughing*
Posted by: John | October 13, 2006 at 12:21 PM
...make that the guy on the right.
The 'guy' on the left is Bill
Posted by: John | October 13, 2006 at 12:22 PM
Anybody can post a comment here. Illiterates, especially.
Posted by: anybody | October 13, 2006 at 12:33 PM
There's also this classic BSOD, which might be the world's largest.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhl/1418448/
Posted by: Brandon | October 13, 2006 at 12:44 PM
#Fred: Hah, you're righ, I use it everyday too! :-)
Posted by: Diego | October 13, 2006 at 12:45 PM
OMFG, that's so funny.
Windows runs on many, many, many types of hardware and we saw some bugs. That's so funny!
I should buy a Mac because even though the Mac OS only runs on one type of hardware, it's still perfect in every way and it never even crashes, ever!
Posted by: Wayne | October 13, 2006 at 12:46 PM
Here's a big one in my neighborhood - soho, nyc:
Posted by: DRoss | October 13, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Mac's Don't get BSOD Unless it's Windows that is crashing... get it right
Posted by: Joe Schmoe | October 13, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Cant post a link to an image so here is the url:
http://kenyattacheese.net/images/20050615_giantpspcrash.jpg
It's a huge sony psp on a billboard.
Posted by: dross | October 13, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Check this out for more bsod
http://prezwho.com/top-ten-blue-screen-of-death-in-public-places
Posted by: Zerp | October 13, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Nice photoshop work. Most of those scenarios can't happen as they don't all run Windows. The scrolling marquee would not have displayed that message. It simply wouldn't have worked. The host computer may have blue screened though. Funny though.
Posted by: Anon | October 13, 2006 at 12:59 PM
#2 is not New York. Look at the traffic signs.
Posted by: WTF | October 13, 2006 at 01:06 PM
@Graeme43:
Thank you for the information. I never would have guessed!
This just in: Computers are on the Internet now.
Posted by: gnarbuckets | October 13, 2006 at 01:11 PM
#2 is not NYC, but probably in France where "Grimonprez Tranports" (green semi-tractor in traffic) is based - plus the European traffic signs as "WTF" pointed out.
Posted by: jakyll | October 13, 2006 at 01:41 PM
They're are all fake you morons! How can a MAC have a blue screen?
Wake the hell up before you post crap and waste my time.
Posted by: fake | October 13, 2006 at 02:04 PM
Мухахаха
Posted by: AS | October 13, 2006 at 02:05 PM
Presenting the infamous Bill Gates BSoD for Win98.. :-)
Posted by: Flak | October 13, 2006 at 02:11 PM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8363127660275444169
Posted by: Dud | October 13, 2006 at 02:12 PM
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
for those of you kids who tried to make the poster feel stupid about photoshoped pictures.
retards.
Posted by: retarded | October 13, 2006 at 02:25 PM
I made a nice BSOD-spoof autoinstaller for CD-ROMs.
Get it here:
http://www.ferzkopp.net/joomla/content/view/6/14/
Posted by: ferzkopp | October 13, 2006 at 02:27 PM
On the PA Turnpike, I was at a McDonalds that had 3x 42" plasma screens as its menu inside above the cash registers. All 3 were mirroring a BSOD, and I got to watch it boot up into Windows 2000 and reveal the menu finally.
I think this might have been the standard procedure it used to update from the breakfast to the lunch menu...
Posted by: Andrew Moyer | October 13, 2006 at 02:38 PM
Related: 'Please tell Microsoft about this problem,' Times Square
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidfg/101169191/in/set-72157594255692250/
Posted by: David | October 13, 2006 at 02:57 PM
"here is the scoop
when i see these types of post s it tells me one thing
the person who posted the topic and the people who had the blue screen have no clue on how to install device drivers correctly
lets say this much, it does not say much about your intelect"
I can say I have been runing and working on windows based systems since 3.1 came out. There are many other things than a driver that can cause the BSOD. Many Many reasons. If you think thats the only reason, you need help.
Posted by: Reverb | October 13, 2006 at 03:40 PM
True fact of the day: Windows XP has BSOD disabled! But where did it go? Well when your computer restarts "out of the blue" (hehe) for no reason, that's a BSOD, they are just too embarrased to show it. So the computer restarts.
Posted by: Mark | October 13, 2006 at 03:42 PM
people are so fucking dumb.. all of these devices could be running windows and could have a BSOD.. the only one that I see questionable is the scrolling marquee because no only does it probably not runn off of windows (basic led display) but it probably wouldn't scroll the message. I have seen a BSOD on a huge billboard when visiting San Francisco.
Posted by: me | October 13, 2006 at 03:55 PM
Mark: your "true fact" is bullshit. just kill some system processes (like csrss, every svchost and so on) and you get a beautiful bluescreen
or close a handle to a kernel funktion of any program accessing the kernel, also a bluescreen
sorry to destroy your dreams, but there actually are blue screens in win xp
Posted by: Klaue | October 13, 2006 at 04:20 PM
Priceless
Posted by: Ivan Minic | October 13, 2006 at 04:23 PM
At least entries 2,3 and 5 look fake. Maybe more. Still pretty cool tho.
I liked the retard that said "Mac's Don't get BSOD Unless it's Windows that is crashing... get it right"
Like Macs never crash.. Jeez. Only an idiot would think that any OS is perfect. It's probably deep-seated feelings of inadequacy that drives most Mac owners to hate Windows.. I remember back in the day with speccy vs c64... ST vs Amiga... Oh well, I guess you're always going to have people with PC envy.... =)
Posted by: alt | October 13, 2006 at 04:29 PM
The blue screen of death can be any colors, it's based on the Windows theme color settings for DOS box, at least it was circa Windows 3.1. There was a tool you could get for 95 that would twiddle those colors.
Posted by: K | October 13, 2006 at 04:30 PM
Yeap, the changes were held in system.ini
Posted by: alt | October 13, 2006 at 04:42 PM
I was at the Comdex 98 show and was a live witness to the actual historical event posted above. I'll never forget it!
Posted by: Lexone | October 13, 2006 at 06:54 PM
i once had a blue screen at one of those esso stations that have the adds in the displays.
Posted by: mr | October 13, 2006 at 07:33 PM
Bonus BSOD #2 is your website! (which is dsplayed in such small type - ignoring the size that I have set in my browser) - that it is virtually impossble for me to read it, at all.
Posted by: TC | October 13, 2006 at 11:47 PM
CTRL = in firefox.
Posted by: alt | October 14, 2006 at 04:28 AM
TC: This may come as a shock to someone as self-righteous, but nobody, NOBODY has the obligation to set type in their pages in whatever sensible way you happen to like this week. They don't need to use ems, they don't need to use relative sizing, they don't need to care about whatever size you've set. Especially when they haven't had to care for a decade now.
If they do, then it's a courtesy, not an obligation. Try to ask politely and it may happen but keep being a css nazi and you won't get good responses anywhere (it may make you feel better about yourself, though).
If you ask courteously you may be heard, and may be able to better see the site in the future. If you don't care about that then stop complaining.
Gods, how I hate CSS Fads followers.
Posted by: Eduo | October 14, 2006 at 06:36 AM
instead of internet explorer, try about:mozilla in firefox
Posted by: arvid | October 14, 2006 at 10:15 AM
Yeah the Mac's aren't getting BSOD because of the chipset though - it's because they're running Windows in a virtual machine or via BootCamp
Posted by: James Gardner | October 14, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Don't we all just love Windows...
Posted by: colbert | October 14, 2006 at 11:16 AM
Hola Miguel, este es muy bonito tambien!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/os_crash/141796197/in/set-72057594127608297/
Posted by: Crafton | October 14, 2006 at 12:41 PM
ive gotten a blue screen of death on my ipod! it was awesome! thats gotta be number 11
Posted by: condormcs | October 14, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Sure Macs crash - but it's called a Kernel Panic and it looks COMPLETELY different (and for the record it looks a hell of a lot better than a BSOD, but I guess that's a given). All the Macs displaying a BSOD are obviously Intel Macs running Windows.
I don't understand why this even needs to be pointed out because it's really bloody obvious, maybe it's just me.
Posted by: stevedave | October 14, 2006 at 01:22 PM
Alt - Well I've had a G3 imac for jeez, nearly 7 years and a G5 imac for 1.5 years and no, neither has ever crashed or made me feel inadequate!
Posted by: paulo | October 14, 2006 at 01:23 PM
Great BSOD. All I have to say now is All Your Base Are Belong To Us AYBABTU.
Posted by: Matt Thomas | October 14, 2006 at 02:45 PM
Mighty funny! Just try typing bsod in Google Images, you get a whole slew of such pictures. By the way, I hereby solemny confirm that the #2 picture has been taken in France near Paris, probably from one of these big towers in La Défense.
Posted by: go26 | October 14, 2006 at 03:57 PM
can somebody identify where in NYC that first picture is? i've lived here all my life and i have never seen signage like that anywhere in NYC. The speed limit in a red circle is a european thing but I cant quite make out the words on the large sign.
Posted by: A C | October 14, 2006 at 04:59 PM
^^
my bad its the second picture. and looking at it again several of those cars don't look like anything i have ever seen in america.
Posted by: A C | October 14, 2006 at 05:01 PM
I was in the Termini railroad station in Rome, Italy in May of 2006 and saw a row of monitors that were supposed to show schedule information instead displaying a Linux partition repeatedly failing to boot. It was on a Saturday morning, so I'm guessing it could have stayed that way all weekend long.
Posted by: eb | October 14, 2006 at 05:45 PM
Nice *Collection*
Use Nix and no blue screens :)
Posted by: jonas | October 14, 2006 at 06:39 PM
Actully Macs on rare occasions get a black screen of death. Technically a kernel panic really.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46835438@N00/269738188/
Posted by: HDC | October 14, 2006 at 08:34 PM
Not a BSOD, cuz this is DOS - but still, amusing:
http://www.purecaffeine.com/2005/11/advances-in-cinema-restroom-technology/
DISK BOOT FAILURE ... in a hand dryer!
Posted by: Nat | October 14, 2006 at 09:02 PM
In the sprint store, I saw the saddest BSoD ever. the demo i870 would turn on, display a BSoD-colored screen with no words on it, then die. either moto's using microsoft code even in their non-windows phones, or someone bricked the floor model, both of which make the phone look bad to customers.
Posted by: dave | October 14, 2006 at 09:51 PM
I used to work on lottery machines that ran on embedded xp, and getting a BSoD on those wasn't an uncommon occurance
Posted by: malth | October 14, 2006 at 11:49 PM
OMG!!!
the first one is from argentina.
I can't believe it...
it's not a subway car... it's a common train.
"linea mitre"
that is supossed to be a train oriented to high class people, because it goes near very posh places..
well... such a funny thing...
greetings from arg.
Posted by: Christian | October 14, 2006 at 11:55 PM
#1 is from TBA train in Buenos Aires... I take that train every day and I've seen BSOD's on those screens quite a bunch of times... they used to run Win2k and now I think they're on WinXP. I've posted some photos I took from them a while ago on my blog:
http://eternobraindump1.blogspot.com/2005/12/bsod.html
and one from the ticket machine in Vicente Lopez station (well it's not exactly a BSOD but still...)
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/4838/dsc004187ns.jpg
Posted by: Boro | October 15, 2006 at 12:23 AM
I remember the old "mac bomb", and the "sad/dead mac" accompanied by the chilling finality of the "chimes of doom."
Everything crashes.
Posted by: LeMel42 | October 15, 2006 at 02:25 AM
nice job, i've seen an ATM BSoD, shocked me ate my card and then booted windows 98, how current we are in the UK
Posted by: evilslack | October 15, 2006 at 02:43 AM
Funny thing, since switching to XP years ago, I've only had 3 BSoD's, and 2 of them were RAM related and the other was a bad hard drive.
Posted by: TommyRude | October 15, 2006 at 03:32 AM
Check this search in Flickr:
http://flickr.com/search/?q=bsod&w=all
Posted by: clonn | October 15, 2006 at 08:28 AM
:D :D LOL
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lbrash/msjokes/blue-screen-of-death.gif
Posted by: conn | October 15, 2006 at 08:44 AM
When the Thornton's gas station & convenience store chair (US) changed to NT4 a for years ago, I got to catch a glimpse of a BSOD'd cash register.
I've seen a BSOD on a Kroger self-scan machine.
Posted by: MiniMage | October 15, 2006 at 04:42 PM
#2 picture was taken in the suburbs of Paris, the sign indicates PUTEAUX which is actually west of Paris
and sorry to disappoint you all but it seems like the BSoD is only the reflection of a screen in the window !
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Posted by: sdrawkcaB oeJ | October 18, 2006 at 11:52 PM
"2. Blue Screen of Death in New York City" is absolutely not in New York City. Looks like somewhere in Europe.
Posted by: Dan | October 19, 2006 at 12:46 PM
See this Blue screen. It was the last year on the bank
http://maxid.com.ar/2005/05/wincajero.html
M.
Posted by: Maximiliano | October 19, 2006 at 08:03 PM
"2. Blue Screen of Death in New York City" is absolutely New York City. Look at the yellow cabs, we don't have them in europe.
Posted by: steve | October 23, 2006 at 03:10 PM
one more: http://www.flickr.com/photos/onesevenone/401914732/
Posted by: Stevie | February 25, 2007 at 07:35 AM
hello
Posted by: kolli kolli | March 12, 2007 at 07:57 PM
The Pixar studio is teaming up again with the creator of Monsters Inc for its next big animation project...
Posted by: Troy Hand | June 21, 2007 at 01:12 PM
Pinche Windows Basura Es una PORQUERIA
Posted by: .YTZ | August 17, 2007 at 10:07 PM
My "top list of BSOD"
http://www.jonnyken.com/infoblog/2007/05/07/blue-screen/
Posted by: Jonny | August 30, 2007 at 07:39 AM
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Posted by: [*names.txt*] | October 30, 2007 at 12:03 AM
New site devoted to BSODS
Http://www.bsods.com
Posted by: KYS | January 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Hi MC. I read and loved your post on SharePoint, which I squashed at my last employer. We went with MediaWiki, which I found inferior to TWiki. I used that at the prior job. The comparison is at my URL. Try TWiki. I bet you add it to your top 10 tools. (I LOVE AutoHotKey!)
Posted by: Jim Gettman | January 24, 2008 at 05:47 PM
trava toda hora e em todo lugar
belas fotos e nem belos assim os travamentos
por isso que uso Linux
Posted by: Marcio de Castro | June 27, 2008 at 01:28 PM
its funny
Posted by: bo | June 28, 2008 at 08:28 PM