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First Blue Screen of Death on a Mac

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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15 comments

    Nice red stapler.

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    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?

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    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.

    [...] Push Windows until you get the BSOD (blue screen of death) (from DealCatcher via Cult of Mac) LOL! [...]

    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).

    First Mac Blue Screens Of Death…

    Cheers to Boot Camp!  You know, because pretty blue screens are so much nicer to look at than those crummy ‘dead mac’ boot screens from OS9. Dan Baxter writes, "I just finished all the Windows updates and rebooted like 5 times. Everything w…

    >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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