When’s the Last Time You had a BSOD?
If you’ve used Windows, you’ve likely had to deal with at least one Blue Screen of Death. It’s frustrating, to say the least. Some people are lucky, and have never even had one… while others aren’t as fortunate, and get them on a regular basis.
I have some sort of issue with Windows Vista and nVIDIA graphics drivers, so have seen blue screen fairly recent and fairly regularly. :-( Even with the new drivers this week I still get the problem! – Kol Tregaskes
about 6 years ago. even with my current computer problems, i never got the blue screen. – Anika Malone
A couple of weeks ago with Vista. – Chris W
iTunes crashed Vista a few days ago. Need to upgrade it to the fixed version of iTunes 8. Other than that, never. – Roberto Bonini
Years. – Soulhuntre
I can crash XP any time. Just leave my phone plugged into the USB port when I hibernate Windows and it’ll crash when I unhibernate it. – Morton Fox
I havent had it for a LOOOOOOONG time – Chacha
Vista runs great for me. I had an issue once where I thought Vista and flash video weren’t getting along causing serious lag. I figured out that my video card was over heating and once i cleaned out the dust it was all good. (I’m on a laptop). – Jason Shultz
This afternoon. Seriously. Running win XP sp3. Dunno why but get these quite often lately. – Tobias Verhoog
Have you ever had a BSOD? Do you know what caused it?
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21 Comments
DogReader
November 5th, 2008
at 7:27pm
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rainvibe
November 5th, 2008
at 6:20am
The only BSOD I got on Vista was caused by the firewall from IOBit I tried, when I think of it any BSOD I have seen in XP or Vista was cause by firewall softwares…
Tom Woolf
November 5th, 2008
at 7:10am
On one PC recently, but it kept coming back and coming back and coming back….
A friend got whacked with a virus/trojan horse/other tool of scum-sucking-pigs. He made the mistake of installing “anti-malware” from a pop-up. I did not have the tools or skills needed to remove the multiple levels of infections. The infections somehow made the hard drive unbootable (except in safe mode), so the thing was effectively a brick. A $400 trip to Geek Squad (I suggested a different local PC shop), and he had his laptop back.
Related question: If I catch somebody breaking into my house or car, I can legally defend myself and property using a baseball bat. So, why can’t we use the same tactic on the slime who pull this crapola?
Tim Brazer
November 5th, 2008
at 7:51am
I get BSOD’s all the time. You hit it right on the head with the NVidia problems.
I have an NVidia 7 Series and the thing heats up to at least 60-65C. This even happens when I’m using a notebook cooler.
Most of the time though I can get by with a temperature reading of 55-60 though. I can’t watch T.V. on it though.
Steve
November 5th, 2008
at 8:43am
Has to have been over a year ago. Still quite happy w/Win2K Pro, fully updated.
Steve
November 5th, 2008
at 11:02am
Generally I’m BSOD free, but last week my 4 1/2 yr old IBM Thinkpad started spitting them out every time I boot up. It’s a hardware problem, motherboard most likely. Time for a new laptop.
James G
November 5th, 2008
at 11:34am
I have never had the BSOD with Vista and it has been a couple of years at least since I last had it on one of my XP machines. I am pretty sure it happened when the system decided it did not want to run cursor xp with XP SP2.
ORenyRen
November 5th, 2008
at 1:19pm
Since I started using Vista in I think March 2008, never. In my many years with XP, I think I only got BSOD 2 or 3 times. Yes, that averages out to getting a BSOD on XP less than once a year.
starbucks95905
November 5th, 2008
at 2:13pm
I haven’t had a BSoD in two years I think, and that was the only time. I have seen plenty of other computers BSoD in my time, but my troubled computer never seemed to bluescreen.
Aryeh Goretsky
November 5th, 2008
at 11:38pm
Hello,
A day or so ago in my test lab. We’re testing some new code for file system filter drivers. A complete memory dump was collected and sent to the development team for debugging.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Flou
November 6th, 2008
at 3:41am
just a few weeks ago when i was reinstalling vista on my moms laptop. it was caused by the ati graphics driver.
Adam
November 6th, 2008
at 5:55am
I had a BSOD a year or two ago. Just got one again yesterday. I think it was BlackBerry Desktop Manager and Vista 64 combination.
Jake
November 6th, 2008
at 7:16am
Well When I boot in to windows on my mac book it crashes. UGh . But when im on a pc it will crash and i was last on a pc 3 years ago
bill
November 7th, 2008
at 3:54pm
I just recently had the B.S.O.D. this past week on my wife’s laptop and so I had to ship it to H.P. to be fixed. I tried everything to prevent the B.S.O.D., but my computer expertise is not that great and besides, her laptop did not come with the Vista CD, so I am going to have to send for it.
Dylan
November 13th, 2008
at 6:31am
I got one in a virtual machine of Xp the other day.. that was strange to say the least :)
Thelittleleprechaun
November 13th, 2008
at 12:31pm
Yesterday…still don’t know why…
jack
January 3rd, 2009
at 8:14am
errmmm yesterday my pc had been on for 2 days downloading vista sp2 (really sh*t internet lol) and then luckily it had finished and then boom it happened first time ive had it on my pc i got in september 2008
Zac
January 5th, 2009
at 3:55pm
I had 2 blue screens, 1 on my Mum’s Acer Aspire 5100 or something running Vista, and 1 on my Compaq Presario V3020AU running XP which was caused by my graphics card (just had to update the driver, nothing bad). In fact my laptop’s blue screen was AT SCHOOL, which was a day I’ll NEVER forget! Hahaha
mike
January 11th, 2009
at 4:52pm
i have never had a BSOD in my 4 years of computer
i have xp duhhh
ray
February 12th, 2009
at 7:58am
I never seen a BSOD in XP Pro. I currently own a laptop with Vista Home Basic, and I see a BSOD about every week. I have reverted back to XP Pro, and it’s working great. I might not go back until Vista SP2 comes out.
Bjorn Roesbeke
July 5th, 2009
at 4:03pm
I’ve had a BSOD 2 minutes ago, the second one this month (Vista doesn’t even know it BSOD’d).
This time it BSOD’ because i mounted a ISO on my server (XP) with PowerISO while i was watching a livestream. I almost start to think Windows is bugged if i don’t get a BSOD at least once a month but now i have a new hobby: Take pictures of every BSOD i get.