Have you had a BSOD?

[cagalindo]

Have you ever had the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH or the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH?

i never have

Discuss.

 

[Boogityboo04]

I had one after I installed outdated drivers that came with a EVGA graphics card, but that the only I can remember.

 

[tifc8lraz]

None on Xp, but some on my previous computer (they ran on ME, or 98/SE).

 

[GeekieNick101]

Yeah I get one now and then running xp media center but never got one on some of my systems others werent so lucky...

 

[gavilan]

Fortunately, aside from beta versions, windows 200 and XP are much more stable than previous windows versions. A BSOD is almost always hardware/configuration related.

 

[TimeParadoX]

I never get them

 

[SNGX1275]

Got a couple when I had the BIOS configured incorrectly for my RAM.

I get the black screen of death on my Powerbook about once a month, and lockups regularly, got to send it back to Apple sometime, good thing I bought AppleCare.

Back when XP first came out I had a GeForce 2MX card and it would continually BSOD with an infinite loop error. Curiously all the Whistler betas I ran never expierenced those. It took quite a while before MS and nVidia got on the right page and the BSODs stopped.

 

[Jesse_hz]

It's extremely rare that I get BSODs and most of the time when I get them they are because of my overzealous overclocking attempts.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

I got a BSOD on wednesday and apparently according to the minidump, the culprit is either faulty ram or mobo. However, it hasn`t happened since, so I`m not too worried at the moment.

Regards Howard

 

[Mirob]

When I get them then I raise voltages or lower the memory divider.

 

[Jesse_hz]

Oh really?!

 

[bobstolemycooki]

I got one when... I don't remember exactly when but I either plugged in or unplugged the power from an internal CD drive while doing something on the computer.
Windows also had troble booting after that...

 

[sw123]

Only a couple hundred on a win98 machine(really a peice of ****)



sw123

 

[raybay]

Is the BSOD that funny look your spouse has on their face when they discover you have purchased a new motherboard, or is it when you buy a new 700 GB hard drive? I suppose the purchase of a new version of Photoshop could do it as well?