Black screens in Windows 11? Bork has seen it all before
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/07/05/bork/
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A case in point is the sad screen in the doorway of the Salsa clothing store and snapped by an eagled-eyed Register reader. The fashion outlet can be found in the Fórum Madeira Shopping Centre on the island of Madeira.
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We think what has done for this bit of digital signage is an unhappy CMOS checksum. The tell-tale corner of what looks like an American Megatrends logo indicates that whatever is running behind the scenes has yet to trouble Windows (or whatever operating system is running on the inevitable PC).
It also looks as though the sign is exhorting passersby to press a key in order to enter the BIOS to rectify the problem. Or perhaps it is a thinly veiled reference to the 2019 Cardi B song "Press". Certainly, Ms B has some notable connections to the tech world, not least through her touching 2020 tribute to the mobile data connectivity technology of yesteryear, "WAP".
[3]We hope this hotel has a nice spa because Windows sure looks like it needs some R&R
[4]London Greenwich station: A reminder of former glories. Like Windows XP
[5]Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign
[6]If HAL did digital signage. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that...
As for Salsa, it seems the technology of yesteryear is also doing a sterling job here, even if the screen "has been borked for more than a week," according to our reader. A simple 50 per cent sale banner is likely more than capable of luring in the punters and has considerably less in terms of power needs and bork potential.
I see a BSOD and I want to paint it black
And what does The Reg think about the alleged replacement of the Blue in the BSOD with darkest black? Well, let's just say that Windows 11 remains some way from final release. While a black screen (like the failed CMOS check of today's bork) might be all the rage right now, there may be many a shade to be checked by the Microsoft engineers between now and shipping.
Us? We still have (not so) fond memories of the alarming red on black of an Amiga Guru Meditation Error. Perhaps [7]a soothing blue is not so bad after all. ®
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[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/1/22559852/microsoft-windows-11-black-blue-screen-of-death-bsod-change
[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/07/02/madeira_bork.jpg
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/bork/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/28/bork/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/21/bork/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/14/bork/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/02/windows_blue_screen/
[8] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: W11
I'm only being offered W10 20H2
I must be doing something wrong.
Re: W11
Need to be an Insider on the suicidal Dev track
Re: W11
Where's your sense of adventure? C'mon, live a little!
GJC
Re: W11
It's worth a look just to see what horrible design decisions are made when you try and shoehorn new ideas into an existing UI.
Central start button that moves every time you start a new app. Doesn't even look central as you still have the clock etc bottom left.
New Window management stuff looks nice if you have a really big screen.
I'm sure it will improve before release.
I like blue
But I think it would be better if all those stores with their fancy digital screens started to think about the ecological cost of their inane advertisements and risk of borkage, and just hung a printed banner that doesn't fall over if the lights go out.
Re: I like blue
But if you think about it, a printed banner is also useless when the lights go out ...
Pink screen of death, anyone?
Apparently you can have any colour you want, [1]it's just a registry key value
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-11-black-screen-of-death
Black and blue - and green...
I remember when the Green Screen Of Death first appeared in Windows 10 insider builds, and everyone was led to expect it to be in the final release but of course it wasn't, and the good old BSOD prevailed. I expect the same here with the black version confined to Windows 11 insiders (and green to W10 ones) with the final releases of both to remain blue.
I'm not happy because of TPM 2.0, mandatory requirement, and even if you have that hardware, it does not mean, because of CPU requirements, that the upgrade will be available. I'll stay with windows 10, until it becomes unsupported, then move over to Linux.
For me it's the need for a series 8 or higher Intel CPU which was listed in the requirements last time I checked, but nobody is talking about it. Everyone is focused on TPM and the Start Menu which can be easily moved back to the left.
I'm here with my i7-7820hq which is a very capable CPU, more than good enough to run eight System Center VMs in Win 10 side by side (one with up to four more nested VMs), but apparently it's not good enough to run a shell facelift on what is basically the same underlying OS. I mean the laptop is three years old this month.
Blue or Black ...
it is still a BSOD
Re: Blue or Black ...
At least it's not gonna be brown.
Run Linux and you'll never get a Screen Of Death -- only a kernel panic.
Trying to remember the last time I saw a BSOD and I can't.
It used to happen a lot on my old desktop because I had a few 3rd party peripherals that needed drivers. I remember reading about how stable Windows is and that most BSOD are caused by bad drivers, and it's Windows trying to gracefully handle a driver failure from something that has way more system-level access than a user application crashing, but all people see is Windows crashing. OK the article was written by an MS guy but this has definitely been my experience too. When I removed the peripherals and drivers I got no more BSOD.
Now I only work on a laptop where all of the hardware and drivers are designed to work together. I get no more situations where the peripheral manufacturer and MS are blaming each other and nothing gets fixed. It's been so stable and I've never seen a BSOD in three years.
I love Linux but it's always funny when people say "just use Linux." My experience has always been it's better on desktops with vastly different hardware, as long as it's supported. But it's a right pain on a lot of laptops because of all the additional problems like function keys not working, bad power management, and fans running at max speed all the time.
Is Kernel Panic the superior officer to General Protection Fault
Don't forget about General Failure, who's a close relative of General Protection Fault. It was one of them who sent Kernel Panic to investigate reported Illegal Function Calls in some Bad Sector of town.
Useful code?
Many many years ago you could buy(!) a TSR to recolourise the Blue Screen of Death. At the time it superceded the detector of "cat like typing" in my ranking of the most useless piece of software ever written.
Since then I have acquired a couple of cats and realised the cat-like typing detector might have been a good idea.
Bring back the Guru meditation error.
W11
I got my first W11 nag on Saturday on the opening screen when I powered up.
I shall be ignoring that for as long as possible, to see what horrors await.