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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! It's always great to reflect on how hard it was to get to devices like the Windows Phone or the iPhone. 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
- New York City, Corner of 42nd street and 8th avenue
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!
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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