Ever encountered a Blue Screen of Death? Share your stories

Read a special release article, “ Things fall apart: 10 blue screens of death we thought we’d never see” by @adystokes and @rabia.brown to explore the humourous and historical journey through infamous system failures.

What You’ll Learn:

  • The origins and evolution of the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD).
  • Various types of system failures across different operating systems.
  • Real-life anecdotes of tech mishaps and their resolutions.
  • The impact of major IT outages.

After reading the article, we’d love to know:
Have you ever encountered a memorable Blue Screen of Death or similar system failure? Do you have any tips or stories about troubleshooting or overcoming tech mishaps in your organisation?

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Love this one!

For a history lover like me, this is a gem!

Thanks to the authors for curating this piece

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@sarahdeery

Sarah that is unfair on those of us who remember and had to work with Windows Millenium, Vista, 8 among other things…

yep and remember the days of simply adding a printer and the dll crashing Windows.
Plug and Play was one of Microsoft’s better ideas.

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a printer?

I used to work for a huge company as event-technician where we had to install several printers - but beware of changing the USB port. And some of the devices were prototypes…

Those were the days (back in 2006-2010 :smiley: )

But yes, remembering the blue screens very well.

My tip in these days - get a Mac. Unless you don’t earn money via IT then switch to Linux :smiley:

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Get A Mac ???
Never Alex.

I would need a field of garlic cloves and a lake of holy water before going near Apple :smiley: