Talk:Screen of death

message: ALL Pokemon games that I've seen have the "save file is corrupted" screen thing not just Diamond and Pearl. Should this be added to the article? Purplewowies (talk) 02:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not notable. Mseingth2133444 (Did I mess up? Let me know here) 00:16, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: ALL Pokemon games, not just D&P

message: Guru meditations, rows of bombs, sad Macs, Grim Reapers...programmers are silly people. -Toptomcat 23:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's also silly is redirecting all those separate articles into one unwieldy central article. (Especially kernel panic, which predates the concept of a BSOD by at least 20 years.) The redirecting is being undone. Haikupoet 01:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This has resulted in a rather stupid state that the sections of this article are copy-and-paste duplicates of the individual articles. Material copied directly from other articles should be replaced by a wikilink to those articles. JIP | Talk 10:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess I could do it, but I'd be afraid of taking a chainsaw to the article and turning "just right" into "not enough". Haikupoet 03:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Default Header

message: Okay, I took a look at the history, and it seems that someone has meticulously added most of the redundant commentary that had been taken out. I reverted to the state of the article on 13 November, then added in an intro that had been written by a later editor. There really is no need for this article to be anything but a summary -- each individual screen of death (with the exception of White, which doesn't seem to have much to say for itself, being not so much a failure mode as a failure) has its own article in much greater detail. There's no need to elaborate much beyond this, and there's certainly no reason to go back to merging the contents of the other articles back in here as was done before. (Not only does it make for an unwieldy page in terms of navigation, but as it was originally done it was Windows-centric, definitely an NPOV violation). 
I'd like to address the comment in the history about a summary format not being needed because the article is under 32K -- that isn't the only consideration here. Disambig pages don't have extensive information on the items they disambiguate, and this particular page serves a rather similar function. Short descriptions are all that is really necessary, and those who wish further information can go to the article without having to scroll through information they don't want. Haikupoet 03:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Re-rewriting

message: It's been reported that Microsoft has just activated a new "feature" in Windows Vista, where users of pirated versions will experience a "Black screen of darkness".  Unlike other screens of death, this isn't really a system error, but rather an anti-piracy measure.  Does it qualify as a screen of death?  If so, it should probably be added. Lachlan Hunt 05:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows Vista "Black screen of darkness" 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Blacksod.png

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:OS2TRAP.PNG

message: The Green Screen of Death (GSoD or Green Screen of Intensive Care) is the name given to failure modes on the TiVo digital video recorder and Microsoft Xbox 360 console game system platforms. In such instances on the Xbox 360 the user is prompted to contact Xbox customer support.
This error also occurs on the original Xbox when the system identifies the disc as a disc readable by the system, but an error occurs when reading it, and gives an error message similar to its predecessor's.''
The original Xbox didn´t have a green screen of death. It was Black with green letters prompting the user to contact Xbox customer support and a number that indicates the error.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.48.193.21 (talk) 05:09, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I take it I'm the only person to get a GSOD on XP then? Must just be me getting lucky.... 
Tom::Leave a message 16:19, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  xbox 

message: Ok, WTF is up with the "yellow screen of death?"  It lists *userland* errors displayed by Mozilla and ASP.NET.  Neither are OS-level fatal errors as the summary describes.  Can we do away with these please?  Or at least cite them?  They look incredibly fabricated and out of place.  --Chris (talk) 14:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mozilla?  Seriously? 

message: I changed the heading for Xbox 360 to "Red ring of death", because all the other headings also had the name of the screen. 81.8.156.41 (talk) 10:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Xbox 360

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Longhorn RSoD.png

message: I think the Sad Mac was there from day one.  In particular, I think if you installed the programmers switch on a Mac 128 from 1984 and hit the "interrupt" switch you would get a Sad Mac.  I removed The Sad Mac was made in 1987 by Apple Computer.  This should be replaced with the same sentence with the correct date and a reference.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 18:07, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Sad Mac debut 

message: I don't think much.
If you compare Red Screen of Death and Red Ring of Death, that is different.
In Windows Longhorn boot error, use RSOD. In XBOX 360 error, use RROD.
Should we compare them ? Junkcops (talk) 01:24, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The sections are already different with Red Screen of Death referencing to Red Screen of Death. Also, one is at the top of the article, while the other is at much lower of the article (though this article does require a little restructuring, including the pending mergers with other screens of death). Also, I don't quite see what is there to be compared. One is hardware based, and shows up as a ring (clearly shown by a nice picture), while the other is red screen (clearly seen by a nice picture), and shows up as a screen. Aly89 (talk) 02:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red "of" death : Screen vs Ring (RSOD vs RROD) 

message: Should Kill Screen be added into article? I think it in the "Screens of Death" category.Junkcops (talk) 23:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kill Screen 

message: This article needs to have some formatting done to it. Starting with the Purple section, there seems to be a lot of unnecessary white space. Sections that I feel need to be revised: Purple, Green (An image of the actual screen would be good too), and the sad tab. Deathwish644 22:25, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: Looking at this page, it's poorly written in some parts and it talks about irrelevant things like a failure mode in an obscure IE shell. This page should only contain things that actually are close to the classical BSOD: that is, critical operating system failures. --71.220.35.140 (talk) 10:41, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is a mess. 

message: I've once made a bold edit to this article, with an intention to suggest how it should look like, but it got reverted by User:ClueBot before any human could read it. I can't report it, as the reports page is semi-protected. Please read and consider reverting it back (or at least reusing some ideas). Thanks, Ian (87.205.182.113 (talk) 15:54, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Because your edit has been reverted as a suspected vandalism. The Junk Police (reports|works) 03:36, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  My bold edit got reverted by a bot 

message: I don't see a reason to have Nintendo DS on here. These are not exactly "screens of death", but more a firmware revision indicator. The first verison of the DS, simply crashes when doing the Pictochat procedure. Later revisions change color to identify which version it's running. Weaselboy246 (talk) 21:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is what I was going to say. It's not a "crash" screen, but a version indicator. DanielDPeterson + talk 02:13, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nintendo DS 

message: I've been looking at this article for a while and I'm finally motivated to clean it up.  I am going to take out all of the sections that, in my opinion, are not screens of death.  The criteria will be that of the intro paragraph: a screen of death is a fatal error displayed by an operating system.  I will be starting with this revision and will move sections I remove to Talk:Screens of death/Removed sections for now.  --Chris (talk) 15:47, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I deleted it due to lacking of reliable sources which made the section, as a whole, irrelevant.
-Spartan9199 (talk) 03:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Yellow Light of Death" section deleted. 

message: I agree with the notice at the top - the whole page should be removed.  
82.33.8.12 (talk) 21:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete? 

message: I have converted the article to a sort of DAB page per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Screens of death.  I have attempted to keep all sourced content.  Throw something back in if I missed it.  (With sources, of course.)  --Chris (talk) 17:10, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  DAB 

message: The citation for "yellow screen of death" as a parser error in XML documents links to this page, which, if you search the linked page for information on the yellow screen of death, you'll find that it doesn't mention anything about parse errors, but rather links directly back to the wikipedia entry. Therefore, this wikipedia page cites itself in this instance. I have removed that piece of information from the article. 147.126.81.41 (talk) 18:59, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  yellow screen of death 

message: Windows 8 and 10 forcibly retain DWM even when host crashes, resulting in a SoD that is colored according to currently selected "main color".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.173.12.68 (talk) 16:02, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screen of Death 

message: the yellow screen of death links to a dead link 2600:4040:A988:5D00:684B:4F9D:7B04:3280 (talk) 23:28, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Link