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Geek Culture / Weirdest cause of a BSOD?

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Thistle Studios
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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 23:01
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As this is Geek Culture, and that ive seen threads way more random than this, I ask the question: Whats the weirdest cause of a BSOD you have had? For example, a few days ago my internet kept disconnecting. To my disgust, I ripped out the USB Dongle. Instead of the internet symbol just going bleh my screen went black, then Blue Screen. Apparently what I did was I corrupted a driver, I didnt mean it, but it was pretty stupid.

Anyone think they can beat me?


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David R
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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 23:17 Edited at: 7th Nov 2009 23:17
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Crashing my plane in Combat Flight Sim 2 (consistently) caused a BSOD for my old machine a while back. Turns out its AGP aperture memory was set wrongly in BIOS and for some reason only ever caused a problem for crashing planes in Combat Flight Sim

(I think the aperture amount is something to do with when it runs low on physical vid. mem so I suppose it actually makes sense to an extent - but at the time it seemed weird)

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 23:18
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Mercedes Benz World Racing: add more than 60 addon cars and flick through the list very fast.

Flying Model Simulator: set a helicopter's mass to a negative number.

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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 23:27
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I like going into friends computers and randomly deleting registry entries, that seems to cause a few(Don't know why though).

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Thistle Studios
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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 23:28
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Quote: "AGP aperture memory"


Not sure what that is, but I can pick out the AGP part, since the PC im currently using is still using an AGP motherboard


Quote: "Mercedes Benz World Racing: add more than 60 addon cars and flick through the list very fast."


I think we have a winner.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 23:33
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If you want to know the reason, the MBWR one was "PAGE_FAULT_IN_UNPAGED_AREA", probably the graphics card driver messing up, and the FMS one was "INVALID_IRQ".

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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 23:35
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Well, im not sure the cause on mine, but it definitely related to the driver ANIO.sys which was my D-Link N Dongle Driver.


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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 00:42
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Quote: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_UNPAGED_AREA"


I like that. Sounds like "a spelling error in a spoken sentence" or "an arithmetic error in non-numerical reasoning".
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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 01:24
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Quote: "I like going into friends computers and randomly deleting registry entries, that seems to cause a few(Don't know why though)."

I'm glad I'm not your friend...

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Keo C
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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 01:39
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Slamming my chair into the side of my PC seems to do it.


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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 01:53
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If my PC idles for more than five minutes it usually BSODs if I'm running any application.

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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 02:17
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Most annoying cause was definitely faulty Vista drivers during the 8000-series infancy stage. Thankfully, it's gotten better.

Weirdest though, would be when I was rotating the camera in Maya. Happened twice for whatever reason.
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I have Windows 7, I don't do BSOD's anymore!

That sounds like such a lame commercial

I think I might have changed a setting in the BIOS to underclock my RAM and that caused a BSOD everytime I locked the computer!

Otherwise my big beast it dandy!


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Computer attacked me with a series of jabs (program crashes), so I returned with a swift boot to its mid-section. The computer quickly answered back with a devastating BSOD and I was down for the count.

One day I turned on the PC and was greeted with a BSOD, beat that!

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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 03:29 Edited at: 8th Nov 2009 03:30
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Watching an alternate planet Earth being destroyed in front of your very eyes because you gave your advanced technology to the Earth military of the past... who then proceeded to do foolish things with it... That'd make you go BSOD.

oh... wait... wrong kind of BSOD. That happened to Edge in the game Star Ocean 4.

One of my older computers did this long ago. Found out that ALL of my DIMMs malfunctioned, and back then that was an expensive fix. x_x

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Here at Penn State there's a wireless system hooked up all through campus that any student can use. However, to actually connect you need to use a VPN Client to handle things. PSU provides a pre-configured Cisco VPN client to students in order to let them connect easily.

However, they also have a bad habit of using one that is outdated severely. Which is no problem, if it works, it works.

The problem was when it didn't work. The specific version that PSU distributes to students had a crippling bug with the Windows 7 Beta releases; once installed you would immediately get a BSOD upon Windows starting to boot.

I have no idea if they've updated the client since Windows 7's release (I've been manually connecting through Windows' own VPN Client), but I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't, given their lousy support for every other operating system other than Windows XP 32-bit.

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On my laptop my internet will randomly disconnect, whenever I right click and hit repair, it crashes and gives me a BSOD.

Temporarly away from the Phoenix Sentry.
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Quote: "Here at Penn State"

Goooo Buckeyes!!!!

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Everyone in Western Pennsylvania hates Penn State for an unknown reason.

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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 13:15
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When I restored my pc back to its original factory settings, it seemed to be missing the drivers for my then-old ATI graphics card. The reason we had to format was that installing my new NVIDIA card really botched things up.
Anyway, after installing the drivers and restarting, tada! BSOD! It did that every time I loaded up the computer, so I had to go into Safe Mode and uninstall the driver. Go Microsoft!


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Hm. The game Homeworld, on my old rig. Whenever you panned right on the asteroid field mission, it would Bsod... Very hard to get around lol.

I did eventualy of course but never the less lol.


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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 13:38 Edited at: 8th Nov 2009 13:40
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Had a rather bizarre BSOD about a week ago. Was downloading more junk to my junk drive, but apparently the drive ran out of space. (reminder to self. Delete downloads folder - Anyway, the next think I know, there's a lovely BSOD and it's happily rebooting... Never seen it do that before..


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Posted: 8th Nov 2009 13:48
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Could have been an out of memory type BSOD, ive never run out of HD space before but i dont think i want to


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Ending the first video in The Punisher game did a BSOD for me :S

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back when i used windows me, for a brief period whenever i clicked My Computer, the houses fuse would trip, awesome eh.

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If I set the view in 3D Canvas Pro to 4 screens (ie. a 3D view, and 3 other screens from the front, side and top) then it BSODs after a few minutes. Seems to be fine if I just use one view-screen, so I assume that's an out-of-memory BSOD.

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I've never gotten a BSOD, at all. And my family has gone through a lot of computers (I think a few early ones BSOD'd, but that was long before I started using them).

Now watch, I'll post this and WHAM!, BSOD...

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This usually does it for me.

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I tried to run that silly free generic-fps game "Crossfire" on windows-7-Ultimate, and it Bsoded. Proof that free generic-fps games DO suck. :3

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