osweekly.com — If you mention the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to a Windows user, they will probably begin to sigh and groan, and they may even shudder at the very thought of seeing one of these horrific images on their computer monitor. If you haven't experienced a Blue Screen of Death yet, then you're not a true Windows user.
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eebaumSep 25, 2006
1999 called, it wants its article back.
niwnfycSep 25, 2006
I cant even remember the last time I had a blue screen. Bad software and hardware cause BSOD's, not XP.
kd1sSep 25, 2006
BSOD's did happen pretty frequently in Windows 9x, but as of Windows 2000 they became less more frequent. On my Win2K box I knew when the CPU fan went because the system would BSOD like crazy. A $5 fan fixed it. In essence, BSOD's these days are for true hardware faults. I have yet to see one on my Win XP laptop. But I know when the fatefull day comes that I'll be replacing RAM or CPU fan.
leviSep 25, 2006
If you want to see a BSoD just buy a D-Link DWL-G132 every time you install the driver I guarantee you will get a BSoD. Works fine after a restart though.
magnorockSep 25, 2006
The only time I have seen XP blue screen, and I have 3 of my own was on a friends Dell that they had me work on. OS had crapped out on them and I did a wipe and clean and it pretty much hated the Dell driver for the sound card. Had to wipe it a second time and started with the sound driver and then it worked like a charm. Again, bad driver for the hardware caused the problem.
Closed AccountSep 25, 2006
Actually my fine-tuned workstation here will bluescreen if I do the following steps. 1. Logout of windows 2. Leave for the weekend Every single time I come back it'll have an ntfs error with a blue screen. I still haven't figured out why.