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By far, this is the most famous screen of death. Black Screens of Death are used by several systems. One is a failure mode of Windows 3.x. One appears when the bootloader for Windows Vista and later fails. In early Windows 11 previews, the Blue Screen of Death was changed to black. [1]
The Blue Screen of Death on ReactOS, similar to that found in Windows XP up to Windows 7. Note the usage of a different font compared to its contemporary Windows versions. The Red Screen of Death in Windows Longhorn build 5048. Note the word "execution" is misspelt as "exectuion", which would be fixed in the later builds.
The Windows wait cursor, informally the Blue circle of death (known as the hourglass cursor until Windows Vista) is a throbber that indicates that an application is busy performing an operation. It can be accompanied by an arrow if the operation is being performed in the background. The wait cursor can display on programs using the Windows API.
MS-DOS and all versions of Windows after Windows 3.1 (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11) also display a black screen of death when the operating system is unable to boot properly. There are many factors that can contribute to this problem, including the ...
Invalid data or code has been accessed An operation is not allowed in the current ring or CPU mode A program attempts to divide by zero (only for integers; with the IEEE floating point standard, this creates an infinity instead).
The software does not access the system on Microsoft Windows through a suitable application programming interface but runs as a driver in ring 0 to have elevated privileges on the operating system. However, a crash in this area leads to a blue screen of death, which stops the operating system.
10.0–10.1: The system displays text on the screen, giving details about the error, and becomes unresponsive. 10.2: Rolls down a black transparent curtain then displays a message on a white background informing the user that they should restart the computer. The message is shown in English, French, German and Japanese.
Machine checks are a hardware problem, not a software problem. They are often the result of overclocking or overheating. In some cases, the CPU will shut itself off once passing a thermal limit to avoid permanent damage.