First Blue Screen of Death on a Mac

Leander Kahney ()

Blue Screen of Death

On the DealCatcher forums, Dan Baxter writes: “So I decided to install the new Apple Boot Camp Beta to dual boot Windows XP on my Mac. Everything went great then I got this after using it for about an 30 mins.”

And here’s another one:

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • Andrew

    Nice red stapler.

  • fanboy slayer

    what a coincidence, that in two different devices, and two different reasons, the blue screen shows the same text…
    bullshit
    why have you installed it anyway if you don’t like it?

  • teebee

    What Apple didn’t qualify their sounds & keyboard drivers. And gosh – you’ve never seen a kernel panic? Had three on my PPC Mini last tueday.

  • lusma

    Both of them are a hardware related issue (a problem with MSKSSRV.SYS, the sound card driver), so they’re more Apple related than MS related.

    I’m using both Win and MacOSX in a daily basis, and most (if not all) of BSOD or KernelPanics I suffered are hardware or third part drivers issues. So it’s no strange that you get this with an alpha drivers (as Apple used to release).

  • http://x9.ath.cx t3h

    >what a coincidence, that in two different devices, and two different reasons, the >blue screen shows the same text…
    >bullshit

    Suppose it’s the SAME reason they bluescreen? They have similar hardware – they’re not completely different. Remember that the BootCamp drivers are pre-alpha.

    >why have you installed it anyway if you don’t like it?

    Because you can.

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