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The Blue Screen of Death in Windows 10 versions 1607–1909, which includes a sad emoticon and a QR code for quick troubleshooting As of December 2016, Windows Insider builds of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server feature a dark green background instead of a blue one. Windows 10, versions 1607 and later, uses the same format as Windows 8, but has a QR code which leads to a Microsoft Support web page that tries to troubleshoot the issue step-by-step.ĭespite the "blue screen" name, in Windows 9x, users could customize the color of the screen. On with legacy BIOS machines, by default, they use 1024×768, but they can be configured to use the highest resolution available (via the ' highestmode' parameter in Boot Configuration Data). On UEFI machines, their BSoDs use the highest screen resolution available.
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Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 use Segoe UI. Windows XP, Vista and 7 BSoDs use the Lucida Console font. BSoDs in the Windows NT family initially used the 80×50 text mode on a 720×400 screen. Windows 95, 98 and ME render their BSoDs in the 80×25 text mode. Windows 11 initially used a black background, but starting from build number 22000.348, switched to a dark blue background. Starting with Windows Server 2012 (released in September 2012), Windows adopted a cerulean background. Formats īSoDs originally showed silver text on a royal blue background with information about current memory values and register values. Engadget later updated its article to correct the mistake. In a follow-up on September 9, 2014, Raymond Chen complained about this widespread mistake, claimed responsibility for revising the BSoD in Windows 95 and panned BGR.com for having "entirely fabricated a scenario and posited it as real".
The article focused on the creation of the first rudimentary task manager in Windows 3.x, which shared visual similarities with a BSoD. On September 4, 2014, several online journals, including Business Insider, DailyTech, Engadget, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Neowin, Softpedia, TechSpot, The Register, and The Verge incorrectly attributed the creation of the Blue Screen of Death to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's former CEO, citing an article by Microsoft employee Raymond Chen, entitled "Who wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1?".
Because of the instability and lack of memory protection in Windows 9x, BSoDs were much more common. In the Windows 9x era, incompatible DLLs or bugs in the operating system kernel could also cause BSoDs.
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Hence, it became known as a "stop error."īSoDs can be caused by poorly written device drivers or malfunctioning hardware, such as faulty memory, power supply issues, overheating of components, or hardware running beyond its specification limits. In its earliest version, the error started with ***STOP. The first blue screen of death appeared in Windows NT 3.1 (the first version of the Windows NT family, released in 1993) and all Windows operating systems released afterwards. As with it predecessors, Windows 3.x exits to DOS if an error condition is severe enough. Windows 3.1 would also display a blue screen when the user presses the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination while no programs were unresponsive. Windows 3.1 changed the color of this screen from black to blue. Windows 3.0 uses a text-mode screen for displaying important system messages, usually from digital device drivers in 386 Enhanced Mode or other situations where a program could not run. It was not a crash screen, either when the system did crash, it would either lock up or exit to DOS. This screen was the outcome of a bug in the Windows logo code. In the final release (version 1.01), however, this screen would print garbage output instead. Windows 1.01 Blue Screen of Death: Long version, showing installation DOS 6, Windows 1.01, and the failed startup of Windows 1.01īlue error screens have been around since the beta version of Windows 1.0 if Windows found a newer DOS version than it expected, it would generate a blue screen with white text saying "Incorrect DOS version", before starting normally. Windows 1.0 BSOD (Incorrect DOS Version): Short version, showing a failed Windows startup
The "Incorrect Dos Version" screen on Windows 1.01, featuring random characters