Red Screen Of Death!

beatgammit

Nov 22 2006, 12:14 AM

I heard a rumor that Windows vista is going to abandon the long-feared Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and make it red instead, kind of a Red Screen of Death (RSOD). Article. The BSOD will still be used, but for lesser errors, only the RSOD will have the intensely bad-news errors. Is this a good idea or no? I personally think it is stupid and only points out the errors in Windows. People will be talking about the change for a while. Some less computer-literate users might wonder what the heck happened to their screen. They may think that their computer is posessed, since the color changed!! Anyway, it probably won't be that bad, but I still think that it is a stupid idea.

Bano97

Nov 22 2006, 01:13 AM

I think that's quite funny. Changing the color does not fix the problem, nor does it change the error! At the most, I think it would simply scare former windows users into thinking they have a virus...for a couple of seconds until they read the error. It seems to me that recently, our society has been using the color system quite often. The "hot" colors for warnings, and the "cool" colors for assurance. Take George Bush's terror alert system in the US for example. Anyway, I think the RSOD changes absolutely nothing except the initial shock of the client. Way to go Windows!

SP Rao

Nov 23 2006, 01:36 PM

QUOTE(Bano97 @ Nov 22 2006, 01:13 AM)

I really don't get the logic of changing colours nor do I know how changing colour helps in fixing the bug. Must confess Red looka much more devilish

knight17

Nov 23 2006, 05:18 PM

I have never seen a Blue Screen Of Death while using XP.About the new colour scheme it makes no difference.Making Error messages more cosemetic LOL

wutske

Nov 25 2006, 10:43 AM

I remeber that it was possible to change the colour in xp, but I don't know how, or whethet it was a joke.

Anyway, RSOD

. LOL, it will scare the crap out of noobs

Aka_Bar

Nov 25 2006, 07:38 PM

QUOTE(knight17 @ Nov 23 2006, 10:18 PM)

I have never seen a Blue Screen Of Death while using XP.About the new colour scheme it makes no difference.Making Error messages more cosemetic LOL

Yeah, you are quit rigth its imposble i think to see Blue Screen in XP in normal running, and casue may be that it turned off, or u hadnt have problems with that, like i had seen Blue Screen of Death

on windows 98 second edition, and when i had changed to Xp platorfm i had never seen it again!!! and RED Colour mightnt be some thing to end all bags i think

xboxrulz

Nov 25 2006, 09:10 PM

I think that Microsoft should redesign their BSoD so that regular users can actually read what the heck is wrong with the system instead of just pumping out the debug information!

Heck, even Linux's kernel panics can be easily read than Microsoft's BSoDs.

xboxrulz

WeaponX

Nov 25 2006, 11:24 PM

I agree that it doesn't elmininate the real problem at hand, but it does have a "trend" to it. Red could indicate a more serious error as pointed out earlier.

I'm surprised some of the users haven't seen the blue screen of death on Windows XP. I have seen it both happening on my own computers and on computers I work with in the field. Usually driver/software related when these errors pop up.

@xboxrulz: Hmm...I remember reading about this a while back. I think the errors are a "tad bit" more detailed or clearer in Windows Vista. If memory serves me right, the screenshots I saw with the error message (not Red Screen of Death

) were from PC Magazine.

elmo121

Nov 25 2006, 11:25 PM

a red screen of death is an interesting thought.... it could help less technical users to find out if theres something seriosuly ring with there computer, or jsut something that can be fixed by restarting - could save a lot of hassal with phoning support for minor things such as virtual memmory requests

BitShift

Nov 27 2006, 12:14 AM

It is utterly pointless.

I bet there main target for doing this is to scare ignorant users into taking there computers in to be fixed every time they see a "red" screen because it will feel much more serious then the regular blue screen.

I could imagine them just putting on the red screen - "Your copy of Windows Vista is permnantly damaged, please buy another one" - That wouldn't surprise me.

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wutske

Dec 8 2006, 07:40 AM

QUOTE(wutske @ Dec 3 2006, 10:19 PM)

This would be THE combination for people who want their windowsXP to look like vista.

Change the BSOD color:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=653343
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/90740/en-us

Generate a BSOD:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/makebsodxp.htm

I've given it a try ... changing colors didn't work ... ctrl-scrolllock-scrolllock didn't work either

.
First one has 2 possible reasons:
~~lack of correct shutdown and reboot (only crashed it after changing it)~~
it'll never work: as I already tought, applies to win3.x only

Second one, different story:
this DOES work, I've did it before, but the settings were altered by x-setup (if not mistaken)
my keyboard might not send the ctrl-scrll-scrll correctly (it's a wireles logitech)
the driver wich is responsible for this feature (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139) is replaced.
//edit: reason why it didn't work: "The computer uses only a universal serial bus (USB) keyboard."

Strange thing is, when I had colors set to brigt red/bright white ... crashing windows (by overclocking) didn't gave me a BSOD, but a monitor that ran out of range ...

borlafu

Dec 3 2006, 11:08 PM

Nice links wutske, anyway I don't get many BSoDs on Windows XP... in fact I don't remember any :S It would be nice for BSoD '98... ups!! Windows '98

wutske

Dec 3 2006, 09:19 PM

This would be THE combination for people who want their windowsXP to look like vista.

Change the BSOD color:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=653343

Generate a BSOD:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/makebsodxp.htm

sparkx

Nov 30 2006, 11:19 PM

I don't know any idea why Microsoft even has a red screen of death (RSOD) or blue screen of death (BSOD)? It sounds kinda like another useless program for them to sell? Do these "screens of death" appear when you get hacked or what? Is it the default background? I don't think its smart to use the color red since its been proven to cause people to become angry. I forget were I herd that from but its true. The color green makes people feel happy

(after looking at my green poster)

laugh out loud
Sparkx.

tansqrx

Nov 30 2006, 09:09 PM

A few comments on this one. I have been running XP since it came out and I have rarely seen a BSoD. Usually the computer just reboots without seeing anything.

Aka_Bar mentioned the following:

QUOTE

Yeah, you are quit rigth its imposble i think to see Blue Screen in XP in normal running, and casue may be that it turned off…

I don’t think you can turn it off. It is something built into the NT Kernel.

I also agree with xboxrulz that the error message should be more readable and be on the screen longer. At any rate you can still retrieve the last message by reading the memory dump which is usually located at %systemroot%\Minidump. Of course you may not have this turned on because you can change it under system properties>advanced>startup and recovery.

I have tried to diagnose many of these messages before and have almost never been able to use one. Turns out that 99% of the messages are generic and could mean that anything could be wrong. Like in medicine, thousands of different afflictions all have the same three symptoms. Wikipedia as usually has an excellent article on the subject at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death.

Red Screen Of Death! - Vista to abandon BSOD and go with RSOD

Red Screen Of Death! - Vista to abandon BSOD and go with RSOD

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