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Blue screen of death is back!... baby...

Nov 7, 2009 1:55AM PST

The other day i got the so called "Bluescreen" error on my computer. I haven't seen this kind of crash in such a long time that i actually started laughing and watching the memory dump numbers rise. Cool! I guess there is still some classic win98 code left in Windows 7 somewhere. Makes me think of my younger days Happy.

Anyway,has anyone else seen the blue screen of death yet? I've googled it a few times and it seems there are many people out there that have, only no one posts on the more prominent tech websites when it happens (thus the purpose of this thread).

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Sorry.
Nov 7, 2009 1:58AM PST

All I can offer is that I've yet to see it. All the Windows 7 machines here are free of any hardware glitches, all cleaned up and so we haven't seen a BSOD yet.

I take it that you are not wanting to find the cause since your post left so much detail out?
Bob

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BSOD
Nov 7, 2009 3:15AM PST

Find the cause of the crash? The thread is about others who have experienced the BSOD. I was playing Dragon Origins at the time, but the error message was complete gibberish.

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Gibberish to us.
Nov 7, 2009 3:53AM PST

The programmers at MSFT however speak that gibber so only they may have the translation for us.

We only have a dozen 7 machines in the office and not one BSOD since we got them.
Bob

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...
Nov 7, 2009 5:48AM PST

Do you sell Windows software in your spare time or is it a full time gig? Seriously...

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I believe what he was seeking
Nov 7, 2009 5:57AM PST

was the full message on that BSOD.

It helps, otherwise we have to guess, and that rarely ever works.

Mark

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No but I was conversing about this issue.
Nov 7, 2009 6:00AM PST

I had hopes you could tell a little more. At least the Words In Red.

I'm just a mod, programmer and pretty agnostic on these things. While I am making some coin on my PalmOS and now Windows mobile apps what I do gives me some insight into these errors.

As it stands this discussion may be just a means for someone to vent and not an actual plea for help?
Bob

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The question was..
Nov 7, 2009 6:12AM PST

I asked if anyone else had seen the problem, not if everyone and their mother has something else to say...

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So its a Poll?
Nov 7, 2009 6:20AM PST

Then let's see where you go with that.

I know it is possible to BSOD but can I ask why a poll would help you fix your machine?

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I don't think he wants the BSOD solved.
Nov 7, 2009 6:27AM PST

He just wants to have a chat with you (and other members) about BSOD's in general. Sofar, you're cooperating very nicely.

Kees

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Picking up the pieces after a crash
Nov 7, 2009 6:32AM PST
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I can say
Nov 7, 2009 8:09AM PST

I can say that all the DOS code should be long gone, since XP marked the move to the NT platform, which was based on OS/2 if anything. DOS effectively died with WinMe. This is why a lot of programs stopped working so well when XP came along. That, and it started actually enforcing certain programming habits that people SHOULD have been using since Win95 anyway.

But let's put it rather simply. This is a HELP oriented forum, so people have a tendency to naturally assume you're here looking for... wait for it... HELP.

To that end, if you're getting a blue screen error, that means you either have some sort of hardware failure, or just a buggy driver. Loads of people will go out, buy the cheapest pile of crap computer they can find, then attach equally steaming piles of crap accessories like printers, and they then seem genuinely mystified when the end result is just an even bigger steaming pile of crap. It's like they expect some kind of magical alchemical transmogrification to take place so that you put garbage in, and get pure gold coming out. In the land we call reality, this sort of thing doesn't happen. You put garbage in, you get garbage back. Sometimes the level of garbage increases, so what you end up with is actually worse than the sum of the two parts individually, but never does it work the other way around. So if you're getting a blue screen, it's because you're introducing garbage into the equation somewhere.

Now, if you want to say that Windows could handle these situations a bit more gracefully, maybe offer up an error message that's understandable to most people for example... Well, that would be a fair point to make. It is important that you recognize what is and isn't Microsoft's fault so that the blame can be appropriately distributed. Blaming Microsoft for something that's A) not their fault, and B) beyond their control is hardly what you'd call productive.

The last time I ever saw a BSOD on any of my systems was my old Compaq P-150 running Win95. I also had a few with my Packard Bell 486 running Win 3.11 before that. Of course both of those fall into the garbage in category outlined above. Maybe before you're so quick to blame others, you should look at what "joys" you've visited upon yourself.

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Blue
Nov 7, 2009 9:42AM PST

...eh.

I only asked who else has seen the BSOD and under what circumstances. I am confused why everyone feels the need to express their irrelevant opinions. I suppose reading my original post and responding is out of the question now that the microsoft trolls have come out of the woodwork. WOW... not even worth trying to chat in this forum.

What a joke.

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Like I said
Nov 7, 2009 11:44AM PST

Like I said, this is a HELP oriented forum, not a DISCUSSION oriented one. And no one here is a Microsoft troll, it's just a lot of the regulars take a very pragmatic view of things. Windows isn't perfect, never has been, and I doubt it ever will be. But it's what the majority of people in the world use for better or worse. Much like you, we don't really have anything better to offer people as an alternative, it's just that we don't waste our time complaining about it. You may as well be complaining about why the sun is yellow or the moon white. What good will come of it? They are what they are, and there's nothing we can do about it. To most of us, an operating system is merely a tool, and each one has a different set of uses. We simply use whichever tool best fits what we're doing at the time.

So until you've got some marvelous new operating system that works perfectly in all situations, why don't you kindly shut it? About the only thing worse than a Microsoft apologist is an anti-Microsoft zealot. The apologists at least spare us the holier than thou attitude when someone doesn't agree with their position.

Go toddle off to some other forum that's full of fellow juveniles (mentally and/or physically) who have nothing better to do than sit around all day talking about how Microsoft sucks. While you're at it, you can debate Star Trek vs. Star Wars, and all the other completely pointless debates that rage endlessly among sad lonely people with no lives. Leave the grown ups to our work.

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CLEARLY WINDOWS IS THE BESTEST
Nov 13, 2009 6:06AM PST

BSOD again today... I wonder if it doesn't like my standard hardware, or whether Jimmy has something to do with my misfortunes. He seemed mad that i pointed out how Windows is junk. I guess settling for junk is his solution even though there are plenty of alternatives. Unfortunately, Jimmy, there are choices but you are too wrapped up in living the life of the sucker consumer that worships Windows for better or worse.

The only reason i use Windows is so that i can play a few games, but it otherwise has no value.

I already see that someone else has posted about at BSOD issue and i thank you. It is curious that even after so much work Windows still has the same old interior faults, but with a pretty exterior.

Thanks for you comment Jimmy,

Signed the Juvenile (yet oddly more intelligent) computer user.

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I did it...I think
Nov 13, 2009 4:10PM PST

I've managed to grt my setup with win7 x64 to BS; the OS apparently doesn't like over-clocking but after tweaking the bios, it's been extremely stable.

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(NT) Blue screen devil will always lurk in windows
Nov 9, 2009 11:54AM PST
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BSOD
Nov 10, 2009 3:09AM PST

Last week,I purchased a brand new system with Windows 7. Everything worked wonderfully for about 5 minutes then the computer began freezing up at random times. I had to hard boot it as the task manager would not respond. Next day, I thought I would give it another shot, then after freezing and hanging up several times, I was greeted by Blue Screen of Death. Took it back to where I bought it and had Windows XP installed. The technician said that the system had over 100 log errors or something and the problem was due to installing Firefox which may have been incompatible with Windows 7 (not according to Firefox website)

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Win 7 Blue Screen of Death
Nov 18, 2009 11:01PM PST

I have had this happen to both a Gateway Vista Premium and a brand new HP Win 7. So far the common theme is AVG 9. The Win 7 received the BSOD after using Fab5 dvd decrypter and watching some SnL on Hulu.

Other than the above, I am very happy with Win 7, but BSOD is *******t.

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Similar BSOD
Apr 6, 2010 7:17AM PDT

I have a brand new Gateway with Windows 7 which just recently started crashing every day. I don't know if it is a virus or not (have scanned regularly but no results). I get a .dmp file but can't seem to find a way to open it or attach to this thread.

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Windows 7 BSOD
Jun 12, 2010 10:45AM PDT

I have had exactly the same problem with a brand new Gateway with Home Premium. It was happening at least once a day and many times more than that. After two months I got fed up and took it back to Best Buy, where I bought it, and they gave me a new one. This time without any of their bull###t software on it. Now it only gets the BSOD occasionally but it seems to shut down by itself now.

What would cause the self shutdown?