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MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 display a black screen of death when the operating system cannot boot. There are many different causes for this problem to occur, and each one of them requires a different solution.
The blue screen of death as shown on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, and their Windows Server counterparts ReactOS , an attempt at creating a free and open-source implementation of a Windows NT-compatible operating system , also features its own BSoD similar to the one above
By far, this is the most famous screen of death. Black Screens of Death are used by several systems: One is a failure mode of Windows 3.x. One appears when the bootloader for Windows Vista and later fails. Also in Windows 11 previews the Blue Screen of Death was changed to black. [1]
And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.
The 'Blue Screen of Death' (BSOD) is a text-only screen with white text displayed on a blue background: it is the response of the Microsoft Windows operating system to a major internal operating system inconsistency, the equivalent of a 'kernel panic' in UNIX-compatible systems.
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, and over the following two months, it was ...
A Blue Screen of Death as displayed in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 A kernel panic as displayed in OS X Mountain Lion. An operating system crash commonly occurs when a hardware exception occurs that cannot be handled.
10.0–10.1: The system displays text on the screen, giving details about the error, and becomes unresponsive. 10.2: Rolls down a black transparent curtain then displays a message on a white background informing the user that they should restart the computer. The message is shown in English, French, German and Japanese.