My worst BSOD

[Link]

This happened to me on June 2. It was a normal day like every other. I was using my desktop computer for fun playing with some games that I have there. Then I decided that it was time to work so I stand up and went to my laptop. When I tried to turn it on I got a Blue Screen of Death. I thought it was one of those extremely rare occasion when a computer fails to boot up properly, so I turn it off and turn it on again. I received the same BSOD. So I checked what was the problem with my computer. The BSOD said something like this:

STOP 0x000000ED (0xaaaaaaaa,0xbbbbbbbb,0xcccccccc,0xdddddddd) UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

So I initiated a One-time Boot-up Selection. I selected that my computer tried to boot up from the Hard-Drive, and I received the same error. This meant that something was wrong with my hard-drive. My worst fear was that data could be erased from my laptop. Luckily, I had my desktop turned on, so I went there and googled on the Internet about my problem. I found a solution to my problem and, fortunately, I was able to continue using my laptop and with every file it had.

That was my last experience with a BSOD, until now. So, have you had any BSOD with your computers? If you have, what was the problem and how did you solved it?

EDIT: Although on the poll is written "BSON", I meant to write "BSOD".

[Mephistopheles]

Look, I think that with "Blue Screen of Death" you are being too dramatic and too specific, it has happened to my computer, though I don't remember well when was the last, my guess is that around two or three years ago, I'm not sure.

Well, as I don't like to admit, you know that I don't know almost anything about that stuff, I never do anything that can make such a reaction so I don't worry about them, I mean, all i do with my computer is play, chat and maybe post something in here, but 85% of the time I just play, what can happen? though I've had some stupid problems with the sound drive with one game a long time ago, but is was that the sound drive was too lame to play the game's music, so I bought a new one and problem solved. My brother is the one messing up with the computer and the one that fixes it, but I don't understand anything when I ask him to tell me what's wrong, he'll never explain me and I'm not familiar with many terms involved.

Still I guess I'll just laugh at what happened to you, and you can laugh at me if you think this is funny, if you think it is not funny, just ignore me.

[Calumon]

[glow=purple,5,300]Yeah, most of the times it's the user's fault. But Link's case is different. He said that he just turned on the computer and it showed that error. It's also very annoying when the BSOD appears while your working on something. The last time I saw the BSOD was in my old computer.[/glow]

[Mephistopheles]

BSOD's don't happen just because the computer is bored or something, there has to be a real problem, if Link only turned it on, maybe it was a hardware problem, I don't know since he didn't told us how he managed to solve it or what is was, he just said that he found a way to do it on Internet, but not which.

The last time I made a problem with the computer by turning it on (about 6 years ago), the hard-drive, lets say..... stopped working, it couldn't even appear a BSOD, there was no hard-drive where to display it, it just stayed black. But that has a hardware problem, the hard-drive was a bit old, things screw up with time, you know.

[Link]

I solved the error by inserting the XP CD and running the command line "chkdsk /r".

The full info of the error I got is here.

[Mephistopheles]

Now I get the picture, I've never had that error, I think, well then, good that you solved quickly. Seems easy to solve, if you know how, but it doesn't seem like everyone would know.

[Calumon]

mephistopheles said:

... if you know how, but it doesn't seem like everyone would know.

[glow=purple,5,300]Specially since, not everyone has and uses 2 computers.[/glow]

[Mephistopheles]

Maybe not, but as a matter of fact, I do.

[Ricky]

That passed a long time ago I don't remember all but I can't passed to the internet when this passed.



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mephistopheles said:

Look, I think that with "Blue Screen of Death" you are being too dramatic and too specific,

Too dramatic???

The Blue Screen of Death.

and Windows Vista now adds his pal, the RED SCREEN OF DEATH.

[Mephistopheles]

Well, by too dramatic I meant the expression "Blue Screen of Death" not the thing itself, I mean -of Death!! that itself is instantly dramatic.

You took your time to say that, you even answered my post and you say that now!? LOL

Red Screen of Death, how clever, the stupidity in this world never ends.

[Gamemaniac]

First ... the name "Blue screen of Death" is not that drastic if you imagine how annoying it could be in past windows. Let's say you had windows 95 computer. You spend 2 hours working (I known seems impossible for a gamer ... anyway) and suddenly the keyboard is not responding anymore, every time you press a key a beep confirms the almost inevitable and faster than saying "what the ..." your screen shows the fearful BSOD. Now if I'm not wrong ... in past versions of windows(I don't know if now is still the same) a BSOD usually meant you had to reboot and since the OS broke down there was no practical way of rescuing what you were doing. Imagine the effect that had on office men who were already late delivering work. That's why it was much more important to save your work once in a while ....


and Second

I had problems with BSOD with my laptop (the same I'm using right now) and even if I can't say I don't mess with it. I'm quite sure it wasn't my fault (for the most part). Also it happened pretty frequently ... like 3 times in a week or so. Luckily it was just for a couple of weeks.

It could be my fault for using all those cracks and free stuff I used to download ... but still I didn't messed up the OS ... directly.

I believe that if the BSOD is shown on your screen that means that theres an application or a small part of the OS that went crazy and windows is not capable of working past that error.

Hence, I would say that the BSOD is the windows version of a TMSD (Total Mental Shot Down) or TMBD (Total Mental Break Down) both are valid phrases.

P.D. My first post ... quite a long one indeed.

[Mephistopheles]

Yeah, I've used Windows 95, and had exactly that problem using Microsoft Word, that's why it has an option to auto-save every "insert number here" of minutes. I would go more for your TMSD or TMBD since generally the computer (state that the computer was not that good, Pentium 3, maybe 300 MGH (is that speeled correctly?) tops, so most of times the computer made a kind of super freeze lke if the processor shuted down and not even the BSOD was able to display.

And I agree with you, back in those machines with Windows 95, it happened pretty often, I'd say once every 15 hours or so, maybe less.

Luckily, I've never been in such a situation that this happening could ruin everything.

[Gamemaniac]

mephistopheles said:

I would go more for your TMSD or TMBD since generally the computer (state that the computer was not that good, Pentium 3, maybe 300 MGH (is that speeled correctly?) tops, so most of times the computer made a kind of super freeze lke if the processor shuted down and not even the BSOD was able to display.

The times when my laptop displayed the BSOD the actual message was incomplete. Don't know if it is some kind of glitch or that the computer just freak out before finishing the display.

And I'm not sure but the Pemtium 3 was around 700 and 900 Mghz.

[Mephistopheles]

Oh, right, I had a Pentium 3 of 500, but maybe the 300 were Pentium 2, maybe someone else can clarify that.