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Blue Screen of Death on an iMac

Well, that didn't take long. It seems that Windows' crash-tastic tendencies aren't limited to PCs. Check out this post by Deal Catcher forum user dbaxter. He writes that after installing Boot Camp, things were going swimmingly...for thirty minutes. While browsing USB devices, Windows did what Windows does best. Nothing.

Since this is the first we've seen the BSOD as generated by Windows on an Mactel following a Boot Camp install, it would seem that dbaxter has produced the 1st "official" BSOD on an Mac. What an honor.

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Well, that didn't take long. It seems that Windows' crash-tastic tendencies aren't limited to PCs. Check out this post by Deal Catcher...
 

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Los Pepes

Just to add to an earlier post:

The BSOD hasn't really been a problem on Windows since Win98 and ME. 2000 and XP are very stable, with most of the problems I've seen being directly related to users themselves. I work with many, many computers and have seen perhaps 3 BSOD's since Win2000 came out.

I'm not a big Windows freak either, I work in Windows, Linux, Solaris/AIX/HPUX, and OS/390 environments. I love OS X also, my next machine will prolly be an Apple. They're just computers though, not worth all of this passion.

UNIX-based systems are not targeted too often with viruses, but that will change if Apple ever gets the Lion's share of the market.

April 07 2006 at 2:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
james 2

the problem with mac and linux users is that they are smug arrogant bigots, with their noses so far up their own b*tt they chew their own food twice.
I have been using windows ME, 98, XP for over 7 years and never had any Blue screen of death as its called. Yet you lot whinge about it as if its a major felony...GET REAL!
Unix and Linux programs are junk,...just look at the latest drab, dreary, half-finished offerings Ubuntu & Fedora 5,...
Its like a customer wanting a Rolls Royce only to find he's buying a car with half an engine, 3 wheels, half a gearbox, & backaxle,...and the customer is then expected to assemble it at home.

April 07 2006 at 7:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James Clarke

Guess why most of the audio stack is moving out of kernel mode in Vista? Because a lot of drivers suck. Interestingly even Apple diehards like Adam Curry abandoned the Mac (at least for making his podcast) due to audio issues that kept screwing up the show.

April 06 2006 at 9:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Liquidmark

There is a GOD! There is a GOD!

Steve is a genius! Sorry I ever doubted him.

April 06 2006 at 5:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SoloMalee

Hmmm, must be a hoax, there are some jaggies on the edges of the image where it joins the screen and, the font just doesn't look right.

And besides fX86756GFH is an incorrect register address.

LOL ;)

April 06 2006 at 4:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SiliconAddict

Yah well guess how many kernel panics I've had in the month and a half with my MBP...2. That's half the number I've had with XP over the course of 5 years. And don't tell me its the hardware. Both Apple's and Applecare CD's diagnostics come back clean. Fanboys are so pathetic. There is a reason its called a freaking BETA.

April 06 2006 at 12:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David T

isn't it obvious? the BSOD happens because proprietary Mac hardware is not fully supported by Windows.

i have been running Win XP for years now and have NEVER, EVER, seen the blue screen, no matter what i connect. here you run it with lousy drivers and it crashes. is that surprising?

supporting Win XP on an Apple is yet another Apple stunt to "prove" to people that Windows is unstable and OS X is better: of course it is, on hardware that has been specced exactly to Apple's requirements. get over it.

i've seen OS X crash. i've seen Windows crash. they're computers after all, what's new?

April 05 2006 at 11:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Corbin

Umm....I don't know if I want filth leaping around my hard drive. The blue screen of death is like......the worst thing that could ever happen, ish. Basically, it would have to be life or death putting windows on my intel-based MacBook Pro, which I don't currently own......If windows can't even run on a REAL computer, then what..................

April 05 2006 at 9:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hrbrmstr

Ditto. Tried browsing a "USB Video Device" in "My Computer" and BSOD.

The only thing I want to do is play one freakin' game without needing to be @ my PC and whomever wrote the driver couldn't even manage to get it right enough to let me do that without me now worrying that the stupid thing will crash right in the middle of a battle (EVE Online).

Sigh.

April 05 2006 at 7:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MacUser

Been using OS X for well over three years now, and I've only ever experienced a kernel panic once, and that was on Panther.

Granted, it's not uncommon for individual applications to lock up (why are you blaming Apple for that anyway?), but it's never meant I've needed to reboot or reset. It's easy enough to end the program and carry on working.

Look, WinXP is far more stable than previous versions of Windows, and many users can go for months without seeing a BSOD. But in my experience my iMac running OS X is far more stable than any of my four PCs running WinXP.

Stating the obvious does not make you a mindless fanboi, it's worth remembering that.

April 05 2006 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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