When you get the Blue Screen of Death..

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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does it ever come back to a working system?
For me it seems I hit enter and the system looks ok, I can move the mouse, and links light up, but nothing ever happens. Even ctrl-del-alt (single and multiple) fails to make any change to the screen. Is that screen just some artifact from the past that means nothing, or does it sometimes work. There are a few settings in the control panels that say “change if system crashes”, and I’ve shifted all of them but that seems to be useless advice too.

2

When you get the Blue Screen of Death…

I scream like a little girl and hid under my desk. :smiley:

No really. I’ve always had to manually reboot the system - ctrl-alt-del does diddly.

3

Well it does when I play Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube.

:slight_smile:

In real life? No. Never. It’s just something they put there to make you feel better.

4

It’s called Blue Screen of Death for a reason, bub.

When you see it, the computer’s dead.

You must mourn for what you have lost, and move on … thus is the circle of life.

[delete]

The computer is dead. Long live the computer!

5

Yup, it’s dead.

If you want to teach it a lesson, yank the power cord out of the back of the computer. You can almost hear the IS manager scream as the hard drives spin down.

6

Now you’ve got me thinking.

I know I’ve regained control after the BSOD. I also know that the computer was twitching like a frog in a high school biology class at the time.

I’ve been able to reboot (by way of Start/Shut Down) after a BSOD, but if I try anything else it reBSODs, for lack of a better word.

7

I’ve gotten a Blue Screen of Death and been able to keep on working. It doesn’t happen all that often, though.

8

You can’t continue after a BSOD with Windows 2000/XP. Sometimes you can with Windows 95. I’m not sure about 98/Me. When a '95 machine blue screens, it gives you the option of pressing any key to continue or CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart. IME, if you press a key, one of three things will happen:

  1. The computer will freeze entirely.
  2. The screen will flash, but come back to the blue screen asking you to press the key again. After doing this several times, you’ll get frustrated and reboot.
  3. Windows Explorer will restart itself (you’ll see the task bar at the bottom disappear, then reappear) and you will be able to continue as normal.
9

Sometimes things are funniest at 3:15am.

Sometimes you get out of them, but it’s rare, and I’m always paranoid so I reboot anyway.