Blue screen of death...[fun : ) ]

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This snapshot, taken at the well-traveled Heathrow international airport, is nearly enough to instill a fear of flying into any geek's heart:

While this displays what is barely more than a screen saver crashing, one has to wonder....where else is Windows crashing today?

from www.macosrumors.com Mike ====================================================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), August 18, 1999

Answers

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

-- press (control@alt.delete), August 18, 1999.

Where do you want Windows to LOCK UP today?

Been griping about unstable MS OS's since they put out their first one. Hasn't done much good.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), August 18, 1999.


Mike,

Have you noticed that "Sad Mac" is a thing of the past? I find this to be a bit of a bummer. He used to be a constant companion. Now all I see are "bombs" which just aren't as charming... (usually in Netscape!)

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), August 18, 1999.


"User has entered an unsupported command" or the program has violated syntax rules - If this error persists, contact the software vendor or check the diagnostics section to verify the configuration settings are correct...........

-- Living in (the@real.world), August 18, 1999.

Cool Photo stuff!!!

MS Motto: "It's good enough...(damn it!)"

My computer does all kinds of weird things every single day. Is the mouse really there? Nope, not today. Didn't I save that file in Excel? Then where is it now? What happened to the icons ... why do they look different today than they did yesterday (and most likely will tomorrow)?

;-)

-- mar (derigueur2@aol.com), August 18, 1999.



pshannon -

I worked on Macs when they first came out. As I recall, those "bombs" are also known in the systems docs as "DS Errors". You'd see DS1 or DS6 errors and reference them that way.

"DS" stood for deep, ummm, fertilizer.

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), August 18, 1999.


Mac,

The real Mac bummer is the black Mac of death screen with the weird chime... means... "your motherboard is toast."

Love the PC pic... Michael! (Groan).

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), August 18, 1999.


I haven't seen the Blue Screen of Death since early this year, and I haven't formatted since last year.

Does this sound normal for Win98 on an AUG95 Gateway?

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), August 18, 1999.


Randolph, I'd say go with it...don't touch anything, don't change anything : )

I've had the black screen of death sad Mac face a couple of times. For some reason I've never actually killed a Mac. Usually the problem is easily fixed.

Most of the time I run into something minor like a bad boot block on the hard drive or a corrupted system folder...screen usually looks like a disk icon with a ? mark.

As for my Wintel box...I can never get the thing to consistantly load all the drivers for all the different cards, etc. Talk about frustrating!!! Give me my Mac anyday! Everything works, every time the system boots.

Although, there's nothing like hearing those awful chimes and seeing that screen pop up to make the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up and the seat of your pants tighten real quick!

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), August 18, 1999.


guru meditation number 7398798

anybody remember them?

-- biker (y2kbiker@worldnet.att.net), August 18, 1999.



When working at a computer help desk, I quickly noticed that easily 10% of the problems people called in with were BSODs.

www.y2ksafeminnesota.com

-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), August 18, 1999.


Mike, the sad Mac screen isn't the same as the Black Mac Screen of Death (BMSD). The BMSD looks like this, on a black background (excuse my poor imitation of the Mac icon):

_________ | | |0101010| |1010101| | | ---------

He's not even able to have a sad face. I toasted old PPC last year, and when I went to buy a new one, my 2 teenage sons came with me. I had my eyes set on a G3, but we ended up buying a pentium machine. Wasn't a fair match, 2 game crazed teen against a frazzled little mom at Circuit City...

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 18, 1999.


oops...my ASCII drawing didn't take. Well, imagine two rows of I/0's inside a mac icon.

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 18, 1999.

Back in my days as a Mac techie, those two rows of zeros and ones would tell me which RAM Simm was defective. (or any of a few other problems) I don't remember that stuff now, thank goodness!

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), August 18, 1999.

I hear an (unfounded) rumor that the BSD was now available in five additional colors. While creating this enhancement did delay Y2K fixes, it was more of a priority to many of Macrosoft's customers...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), August 18, 1999.


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