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Gizmodo: Our First Windows 7 BSOD

Gizmodo Writes:

"We've been fiddling around with the Windows 7 Beta for a few days, but just now finally run into that old friend of Windows users: the blue screen of death.

It's good to see that Microsoft hasn't bothered to change the old Windows blue screen; and by good, we mean bad. Isn't it about time to fail a little bit more gracefully? Or at the very least, in a way that actually makes sense to end-users? The error throws up the driver that caused it (way at the bottom of the error) before automatically rebooting, but actually identifying it via which type of component it is-sound, video, USB, hard drive-would be useful for people who just want to know what they did to cause it.

It's a beta, Microsoft, but it's doubtful you have enough time to revamp this BSOD for launch. Maybe by Windows 8?"

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Lord Anubis5581d ago (Edited 5581d ago )

i Have more than 24 BSOD with Vista. First one was with Alcohol %120 Vista kept me stuck in an endless loop of Blue screen of death. Restarting once the BSOD safety features kicked in. I had to restore to fix. Then it was windows media center and it's remote that caused the BSOD. Every single time i connected the USB IR to my laptop i would get a blue screen of death. The other times they have happened randomly don't know why.

It seems thing will continue the same with windows 7.

What people don't realize that is that in order to prevent the whole thing from crashing only certain components are sacrificed so that they can be restarted. So you don't get to see the blue screen of death but rather "certain feature" has stopped responding. followed by Restarting the processed that hanged. Only when a fatal error occurs is that you see the blue screen of death. nice way to hide it.

FantasyStar5581d ago (Edited 5581d ago )

Man, I'm surprised that people still get BSODs with Vista. I'm pretty clean. My only BSOD was with Left4Dead and it's been documented that Left4Dead has some issues.

sit down droid5580d ago

i ave had vista for a year now had have never experianced the bsod or the rrod for my xbox aswell thankfully:) all good were im at.

Raoh5581d ago

no surprise..

although as a proud microsoft hater.. i believe windows 7 will be good in the long wrong..

but still it will be riddled with issues if your not tech savy enough

meepmoopmeep5581d ago

even their crashes are outdated!

:)

VMAN_015581d ago

At least change the error screens ms. How bout a nice Rainbow screen of death.

Brawler5581d ago

Did you know blue screens of death are caused by driver problems or malfunctioning hardware its not Microsofts fault lol. Learned that in operating fundamentals class at college.

Lord Anubis5581d ago

software can cause hardware to fail.

FantasyStar5581d ago

Or did we suddenly forget CoD4 bricking PS3s worldwide due to GPU Overheating.

CrippleH5581d ago

Especially drivers.

ATI drivers gave me so many BSOD.

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Homeworld: Vast Reaches Descends onto Meta Quest in May

Farbridge's upcoming VR RTS Homeworld: Vast Reaches will be available for Meta Quest headsets from 2nd May 2024.

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thorstein17h ago

That's incredible! Homeworld is so good and adding VR.

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Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Launch Date Arrives

The official launch of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is finally upon us! The game is now available for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC.

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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."