Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E
(2021/10/14)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/10/14/bork/
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Bork!Bork!Bork! There may be no better place for Windows to seek comfort in desperate times than the UK's National Health Service (NHS) – and sure enough a good old fashioned blue screen of death has popped up an A&E waiting room.
The borkage was spotted by a Register reader attending the Accident & Emergency department of a city hospital in the north of Britain.
The screen would normally have info on COVID-19 rules, and display the wait times for the various ticket numbers (in order) dished out by the nurses who do triage when you enter A&E. Instead, it appears that Windows has simply given up the ghost.
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Frustratingly, what looks like a bit of an overscan issue (remember those?) means that some crucial details might have been omitted from the usual gibberish. However, the culprit looks like it is igdkmd.sys , a component associated with Intel graphics hardware.
[2]Confusion at Gare de Rennes as Windows shuffles off for a Gauloise
[3]Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet
[4]Music festivals are back in the UK. So is the background bork
[5]Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows
[6]Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)
A swift uninstall and reinstall of the graphics card driver should do the trick, although we imagine that the IT department in a critical unit have more important things on their minds than Windows doing a whoopsie on a wall.
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Whatever the reason, the screen is a reminder that the blue branding of the UK's health service is equally symbolic of the most unwell of Windows computers. ®
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[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/10/12/bork.jpg
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/04/bork/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/29/bork/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/10/bork/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/bork/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/12/bork/
[7] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/10/12/bork_enlarge.jpg
[8] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
The borkage was spotted by a Register reader attending the Accident & Emergency department of a city hospital in the north of Britain.
The screen would normally have info on COVID-19 rules, and display the wait times for the various ticket numbers (in order) dished out by the nurses who do triage when you enter A&E. Instead, it appears that Windows has simply given up the ghost.
[1]
Click to enlarge
Frustratingly, what looks like a bit of an overscan issue (remember those?) means that some crucial details might have been omitted from the usual gibberish. However, the culprit looks like it is igdkmd.sys , a component associated with Intel graphics hardware.
[2]Confusion at Gare de Rennes as Windows shuffles off for a Gauloise
[3]Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet
[4]Music festivals are back in the UK. So is the background bork
[5]Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows
[6]Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)
A swift uninstall and reinstall of the graphics card driver should do the trick, although we imagine that the IT department in a critical unit have more important things on their minds than Windows doing a whoopsie on a wall.
[7]
Click to enlarge
Whatever the reason, the screen is a reminder that the blue branding of the UK's health service is equally symbolic of the most unwell of Windows computers. ®
Get our [8]Tech Resources
[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/10/12/bork.jpg
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/04/bork/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/29/bork/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/10/bork/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/bork/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/12/bork/
[7] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/10/12/bork_enlarge.jpg
[8] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Where is Dido when you needed her (to muck something up)?