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When was your last BSOD? I'm betting it was a long time ago

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app103:
BSOD's are quite rare for me, even on my old WinME machine.

The last one I had was on that WinME machine, about 2 years ago, when I attempted to reboot while still connected to the internet on dialup. I would say that was a modem issue and not a Windows issue, so I don't feel it says anything negative about Windows, itself. That particular modem will always cause a BSOD if you do not disconnect before attempting to reboot or shut down.

I used to get them quite frequently on my P3 (ran WinME, too), and it was related to the ATI graphics drivers. Again, not the fault of Windows.

Almost all cases of BSOD's that I have seen can be traced to bad hardware drivers, an antivirus malfunction (McAfee & Norton, most commonly), or a failing hard drive that is causing data corruption. I have never actually seen one caused by Windows, itself, except once...

Back in the Win98 days, there was some sort of IE vulnerability that could be exploited in AOL chat rooms by typing a certain string of text, that would cause a BSOD and disconnection of everyone in the chat room that was running Win98. That wasn't fun, but Microsoft did patch that about a month later, although some people are slow to update their systems (some things never change) and the problem persisted for a lot of people, for many months.

Darwin:
I think it's actually a testament to the stability of Windows recently that the much parodied 'classic' BSOD dates back to 9x versions.
-Eóin (March 31, 2009, 03:46 PM)
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Well, overall I’d say you’re right. I *did* manage to get XP to Blue Screen on a number of occasions over my four year relationship with it but cannot say that I remember having had a BSOD on Vista (32 bit or 64 bit). Very stable.

40hz:
Not since Windows95/98, except for one time with Win2k about 3 months after it came out.

Never experienced it under XP - or on any of the server (NT,2k,2k3,2k8) releases.

(And I hope I don't regret saying that now that I have. :tellme:)

tranglos:
When was your last BSOD?
-zridling (March 31, 2009, 03:29 PM)
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I wouldn't remember when I last saw it, if it weren't for one program which causes it unnervingly often - True Crypt. Every so often when browsing files on an encrypted volume (a regular file, not a partition) I do get the BSOD with a message indicating a fault in fastfat.sys. Creating a new encrypted volume and moving files to it doesn't seem to have helped. Thankfully, the files on the volume are unaffected.

Other than that, I guess the last BSOD I saw on XP was from some FPS game, years ago. XP is good to me.

fenixproductions:
I am not sure but there are two possibilities for my machine:
- last reinstall - so two years ago (but I doubt it; Kaspersky broke my Windows to the state there was no BSOD; black screen instead);
- more than four years ago with Win98 and broken CD-ROM (BSODs with too much scratched CDs);

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