Windows 8 Has a Slightly Friendlier Blue Screen of Death

[memadmax]

Yea, it doesn't matter that it shows info on whatever error it is....

MS help both on and offline rarely has information on the errors anyways....

That is one thing the po's me the most. These guys built the thing, create a reference help for it.... and then don't even have the info on whatever it is that is happening.....

 

[clonazepam]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Yea, it doesn't matter that it shows info on whatever error it is....MS help both on and offline rarely has information on the errors anyways....That is one thing the po's me the most. These guys built the thing, create a reference help for it.... and then don't even have the info on whatever it is that is happening.....[/citation]

100% agree.

Similarly, it is funny when Windows asks if you want to look up an "unknown extension" and you think, oh that's great, then the search results in nothing. It's easier to bypass that entirely and just go straight to google.

 

[nikorr]

Like the old one

 

[Shin-san]

I saw that a few times when trying to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine. I wish it worked

 

[MrBig55]

I don't find it friendlier at all: where is the actual error message and it's code so that we know what happened ?? Oh well tech evolution keeps going backward within Microsoft...

 

[dioxholster]

no we wont know why the BSOD happened! where is the error code!!!!

 

[theroguex]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]Wait.. so we won't get fancy codes that specify what the problem is anymore? We just get a general issue listed? FAIL.[/citation]

Why re people thumb's downing this comment? It's completely true. People who work on computers USE those codes to help determine what the issue is and what needs to be done to fix it. Also, mini-dumps sometimes aren't easy to get your hands on, especially if the blue screen is preventing the computer from booting even into safe mode. Think about it.

 

[FloKid]

[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]So is this suppose to make people less mad when they get one? lol[/citation]

Yes, they just have to change to : )

 

[legacy7955]

I say give in info on the BSOD and allow for custom icons plus maybe a little sound too. Maybe something like The Cure's "Jupiter Crash" LOL

 

[Rizlla]

I'm going to go and cause one now. I would really like to see this for myself.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

As Eric Cartman said in the NASCAR episode, "That's gay as hell."

 

[cats_Paw]

"Its still death but its a little nicer" is like saying, im dumping you, but we can still be friends .

 

[cats_Paw]

[citation][nom]BSOD man[/nom]It is easy to get a BSOD, install Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and play for about an hour.It will BSOD regardless of how stable your machine is[/citation]

I have that game and i never got a BSOD on it, so i guess it depends .

 

[cats_Paw]

All i can say is i am going to miss those moemnts:

http://i1.kwejk.pl/site_media/obrazki/2011/09/ef94db6ded5b9de05f5c0c9efcd16e92.gif?1315358259

( its a gif)

 

[eddieroolz]

Interestingly, I've had a routine crash when attempting to launch Minecraft on my Windows 8 installation, but I never got this.

 

[epdm2be]

It's still the same cryptic message. Haven't you really looked at the screenshot. Instead of giving proper erropr messages you get even more BS now. WTF is System_service_exception!! I especially dislike the "you can search for the error online" part! WTF! If your bloody system can't even boot up then how can you search for the goddamn error 'online'!
Doesn't Microsoft realise we want USEFULL error messages. If a module fails tell us WHICH MODULE (the FULL NAME), if a service fails then TELL US WHICH SERVICE not this shit. Can't these morons after 30 years still not create a usefull error message. I don't want smillies and stupid lines like "your PC ran into problems"... Yeah, I see that too, retarded chipmunk! Thank god that soon M$ will be gone, just like those other dinousaurs who make crap every time (like HP etc...)

 

[decepticon]

This will now be known as the BSOS: Blue screen of Sadness.

 

[TeraMedia]

The computer on which I write this once suffered from consistent, reproducible, unavoidable BSODs in Windows 7, whenever I configured it with 16 GB of RAM. 8 GB, OK. 12 GB, 14 GB, not a problem. But if I put in 16, BAM. It was only because of the info provided on the BSOD that I was able to work with the MB manuf to get a BIOS patch (which they wrote for me, because it hadn't existed previously). My eyesight and monitor resolution aren't good enough for me to tell whether the new BSOD contains an equivalent amount of information. But I sure hope so.

 

[falconqc]

Ugh, where is my Hex Error code??? Those "Unfriendly numbers" are pure gold to look up problems. I'm sure I can still find it in the event viewer, but that's an extra step to troubleshoot a problem, and even harder if I ask a client to find that code for me over the phone/e-mail...

 

[chocolatedoughnut]

The average user has no idea how to fix anything when they get a BSOD. They are not going to be able to pick stuff out of the traditional BSOD. They see a bunch of mumbo jumbo. As a matter of fact, for most people their BSOD probably disappears instantly and they will never be able to even see what the error is to anyway. This new page at least gives them something to Google.

 

[Guest]

This isn't nicer.
At least the old screen had some diagnostic information that could help you fix the problem. This does nothing but piss you off.

 

[legacy7955]

Leave the warm fuzzy ghey crap to the Apple iZombies.

 

[liveonc]

What's wrong with this dumb? They could write; We could tell you happened, but you wouldn't understand it, nor will it make you feel better because you don't & can't do anything about it...

 

[belardo]

GURU MEDITATION ERROR!!

http://www.bullzip.com/products/gum/guru-meditation-commodore-amiga.gif

 

[kronos_cornelius]

I like how it blames the PC for it. what about Windows ran into a problem that it could not handle ?

I have had BSoD for no apparent reason on Win7. And many more problem with Win7 on a 20GB SSD partition. 20GB is more than enough for Linux.