Grim Reaper

[Shinma]

Grim Reaper to License "Blue Screen of Death" from Microsoft

Redmond , WA - In a joint news conference, the Grim Reaper today announced the signing of a ten-year contract to use Microsoft's "fatal system error" screen--popularly known as the "Blue Screen of Death" or "BSOD"--in his company's life termination procedures.

"Death is a scary new experience to most people," said Mr. Reaper in a prepared statement. "We wanted to make it more modern, more definitive, and more user-friendly, by presenting it in a manner already familiar to millions of computer users across the globe."

"The Blue Screen of Death first made its debut in Windows 3.1 in 1990," said Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, chairman and chief software architect. "Since then, we've poured millions of worker-hours into Microsoft Windows to keep it at the forefront of BSOD technology."...



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[Steve R Jones]

Change color of BSOD

Edit the SYSTEM.INI file in the Windows directory:

In the [386Enh] add the entries:

MessageTextCOLOR=X
MessageBackCOLOR=X

Where X is replace by the number for each of the following colours:

Black = 0, Blue = 1, Green = 2, Cyan = 3, Red = 4, Magenta = 5, Yellow/Brown = 6
White = 7, Grey = 8, Bright Blue = 9, Bright Green = A, Bright Cyan = B, Bright Red = C
Bright Magenta = D, Bright Yellow = E, Bright White = F

[equinoxe3d]

Originally posted by Steve R Jones
Change color of BSOD

Yeah, I had mine blood red on my Win98 machine a few years ago. More fitting than blue IMO

[Huge]

Same here.

[dannyboy27]

that's cool, didn't realise you could do that

is there any way to force a BSOD to test it?

maybe rip out one of my DIMMs while the machine is running?

(joking of course!)

[Martin_89]

Originally posted by dannyboy27
is there any way to force a BSOD to test it?

on my old packard hell all you had to do was open 2 programs at once

[jankerson]

I worked on alot of Comtrashes back in the days and they always crashed, all you had to do was breath hard around them.

[dannyboy27]

lol, looks like I need to get myself a Packard Bell or Compaq machine then

[dannyboy27]

looks like it is actually possible!

how to force a BSOD

edit: it only works with right CTRL

[MuFu]

Originally posted by dannyboy27
is there any way to force a BSOD to test it?

Use Win95.

[equinoxe3d]

Originally posted by dannyboy27

is there any way to force a BSOD to test it?

On Win98 i used to do it by removing a CD from the drive while copying stuff from it... but my Win98 was so stable I nearly never had a true blue screen happening to test it