Talk:Screens of death

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Guru meditations, rows of bombs, sad Macs, Grim Reapers...programmers are silly people. -Toptomcat 23:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

What's also silly is redirecting all those separate articles into one unwieldy central article. (Especially kernel panic, which predates the concept of a BSOD by at least 20 years.) The redirecting is being undone. Haikupoet 01:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
This has resulted in a rather stupid state that the sections of this article are copy-and-paste duplicates of the individual articles. Material copied directly from other articles should be replaced by a wikilink to those articles. JIP | Talk 10:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I guess I could do it, but I'd be afraid of taking a chainsaw to the article and turning "just right" into "not enough". Haikupoet 03:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Re-rewriting

Okay, I took a look at the history, and it seems that someone has meticulously added most of the redundant commentary that had been taken out. I reverted to the state of the article on 13 November, then added in an intro that had been written by a later editor. There really is no need for this article to be anything but a summary -- each individual screen of death (with the exception of White, which doesn't seem to have much to say for itself, being not so much a failure mode as a failure) has its own article in much greater detail. There's no need to elaborate much beyond this, and there's certainly no reason to go back to merging the contents of the other articles back in here as was done before. (Not only does it make for an unwieldy page in terms of navigation, but as it was originally done it was Windows-centric, definitely an NPOV violation).

I'd like to address the comment in the history about a summary format not being needed because the article is under 32K -- that isn't the only consideration here. Disambig pages don't have extensive information on the items they disambiguate, and this particular page serves a rather similar function. Short descriptions are all that is really necessary, and those who wish further information can go to the article without having to scroll through information they don't want. Haikupoet 03:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


Well Windows NT5.1 (XP) and the Black Screen of death is still here. It didn't go away with Windows 3.x and NT 3.x !! 74.224.98.169 00:56, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Windows Vista "Black screen of darkness"

It's been reported that Microsoft has just activated a new "feature" in Windows Vista, where users of pirated versions will experience a "Black screen of darkness". Unlike other screens of death, this isn't really a system error, but rather an anti-piracy measure. Does it qualify as a screen of death? If so, it should probably be added. Lachlan Hunt 05:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] xbox

The Green Screen of Death (GSoD or Green Screen of Intensive Care) is the name given to failure modes on the TiVo digital video recorder and Microsoft Xbox 360 console game system platforms. In such instances on the Xbox 360 the user is prompted to contact Xbox customer support.

This error also occurs on the original Xbox when the system identifies the disc as a disc readable by the system, but an error occurs when reading it, and gives an error message similar to its predecessor's.''

The original Xbox didn´t have a green screen of death. It was Black with green letters prompting the user to contact Xbox customer support and a number that indicates the error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.48.193.21 (talk) 05:09, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I take it I'm the only person to get a GSOD on XP then? Must just be me getting lucky....

Tom::Leave a message 16:19, 2 May 2008 (UTC)