Rohdekill Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 I get one on 8, once in a blue moon. same here. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 The last bad driver related one must be in the early days of Windows 7. The last BSoD I've had was messing around with Overclocking settings a few months ago on Windows 8.1. I cannot actually remember any 'random' BSoD for a long time. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigby Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Microsoft always got blamed even though it was rarely their fault (failing hardware, bad drivers, etc). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Fun fact: The graphics stability that users of modern Windows enjoy is the result of a new display driver model introduced in Windows Vista. My BSoD's decreased tenfold for this reason alone. It was one of the contributing factors that made me switch to Vista full time, and ditch XP for good. gohpep, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ian W 3 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Actually the easiest way is to have an nVidia graphics card in your system... Gotten a few BSODs on 8.1 from running beta NVIDIA drivers, but that's almost to be expected. Been running every single Beta driver nVidia has released for years in the last 3 systems I've had, never caused blue screens, I did have a defective part, but was replaced and all has been good, so no not driver related, altho normally hardware or drivers are the main culprit unlike before when it was likely XP causing it gohpep 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 I think Windows will always be synonymous with the BSOD. Mainly due to the fact that it is such a common occurrence. Although these days I don't usually encounter the BSOD on Windows 8 much, it just completely locks up instead. I don't know which is worse TBH. IntegralDerivative 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ensiform Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 The only one I've had in 7 was when I had that nvidia driver issue last year because I have a Fermi card. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrobwx71 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Last BSOD I had was with XP Pro SP3. I skipped Vista and went to Win7 for a few years and then to Win 8 and now 8.1. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealDamien Subscriber¹ Posted May 25, 2014 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 25, 2014 only time I get bsod is when there is a bad overclock. which I normally can fix. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pack34 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 I've only seen it once or twice with Windows 8 after it just came out. I believe it was a driver issue. Other than that, Windows has been pretty rock solid as of late Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted May 25, 2014 Subscriber² Share Posted May 25, 2014 Been running every single Beta driver nVidia has released for years in the last 3 systems I've had, never caused blue screens, I did have a defective part, but was replaced and all has been good, so no not driver related, altho normally hardware or drivers are the main culprit unlike before when it was likely XP causing it Sorry my experiance with nvidia was two separate cards on two separate systems, I'll never buy one of their products again, including nforce chipsets. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Sorry my experiance with nvidia was two separate cards on two separate systems, I'll never buy one of their products again, including nforce chipsets. If you think it will be better with AMD then have fun, bit it won't, their drivers are worse Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Had one about 5 minutes ago. Was playing ARMA Cold War Assault, I died, then windows died. IntegralDerivative and Knife Party 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596418999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Had one about 5 minutes ago. Was playing ARMA Cold War Assault, I died, then windows died. :D IntegralDerivative 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Been running every single Beta driver nVidia has released for years in the last 3 systems I've had, never caused blue screens, I did have a defective part, but was replaced and all has been good, so no not driver related, altho normally hardware or drivers are the main culprit unlike before when it was likely XP causing it Newest one cause issues if you also have Hyper-V installed. On 8+, drivers should be made with Hyper-V in mind, since most WP / Win devs have that installed. I guess nVIdia skipped checking for compatibility. I think Windows will always be synonymous with the BSOD. Mainly due to the fact that it is such a common occurrence. Although these days I don't usually encounter the BSOD on Windows 8 much, it just completely locks up instead. I don't know which is worse TBH. What do you mean lock up? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 What do you mean lock up?It becomes unresponsive and provides no notification of an unrecoverable system state a la the BSOD. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted May 25, 2014 Veteran Share Posted May 25, 2014 Last BSOD I got was on a high end server that had a chipset starting to fail... and at that point, any OS will crash... excluding that, I haven't seen one since Windows XP, and even then it was when a driver was bad Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowMajestic Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Sorry my experiance with nvidia was two separate cards on two separate systems, I'll never buy one of their products again, including nforce chipsets. I currently have an Nvidia and its causing me BSOD's left and right. Sometimes Windows manages to save itself by successfully restarting the graphics drivers. But in return crashes everything using GPU acceleration (including IE >.>). Last time I ever frigging buy an Nvidia, I had one before and ATI before that down to my first being a GeForce 4 440mx. I always thought it was the semi low end cards I invested in. I bough t a 200 euro GTX 760 to get a top of the line card not much behind the latest and greatest.... And I'm still getting shaffed with crappy drivers. They still require reboots on updates and reinstalls (WTH, AMD fixed this during Windows 7 beta's and had driver updates working without reboots before Windows 7 went RTM). And crash regularly. I've tried every driver version since the one that supports my card, all crash. Currently am using the BETA driver and it "seems" less but still a crash every few hours of heavy gaming. I've ruled everything out, it are Nvidia's drivers that are constantly causing this. I thought it could've been influenced by the CPU, RAM or even PSU. but it isn't. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 It becomes unresponsive and provides no notification of an unrecoverable system state a la the BSOD. Any idea what causes this? Perhaps we could try and find what causes the error. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 It becomes unresponsive and provides no notification of an unrecoverable system state a la the BSOD. I feel confident in saying that 99% of the time, Blue Screens are related to: 1: Failing or Bad Hardware (yes hard-drives dying cause corrupt system files, not MS's fault) and 2: Crappy software that installs any type of virtual device driver (CD Burning, Anti-Virus, etc) and 3: Badly created drivers. If you setup Windows XP or newer up on a brand new system, and let it sit with no device drivers, patched it all the way up. It wouldn't EVER crash, unless it had some type of hardware/power failure. Max Norris 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 About 10 minutes after me looking @ this thread - I had a 0x1E BSODPlaying Wolfenstein New Order is kicking my video card's ass. (the courtyard scene was getting about 5 fps I bet.It is time to bring the old 570GTX behind the shed and put it out of its misery. IntegralDerivative 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
winrez Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I've had better luck with Windows 7 (keep in mind all my PC's & tablets run Windows 8.1 and love it) I only install apps through the Windows Store don't visit questionable websites and manually check for updates every 2 days (even though I know about patch Tuesdays) well I have had 2 Surface RT's, a HP Touchsmart (Intel ver) & a Surface Pro 128GB all need to enter repair mode from not booting ok. This has happened only once on each of the machines (I kind of believe the Sandisk micro SD cards are to blame (on the Surface RT's I redirected the user folders to the micro SD's) but still doesn't explain the Surface Pro & HP Touchsmart. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Bill handled that one like a pro, love watching that video. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Overlord Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I still get occasional bsod's on win7, restarts usually 'fix' whatever the issue was..... IntegralDerivative 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntegralDerivative Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I still get occasional bsod's on win7, restarts usually 'fix' whatever the issue was..... Why dont you jump ship to the Win8 club? The Evil Overlord 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1214999-blue-screen-of-death-joke-over-for-microsoft/page/2/#findComment-596419693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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