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Old 12-15-2003, 09:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Why blue screen?

I was wondering why microsoft chose a blue colour for their error/crash screen aka Blue screen of death

I am sure all windows users have at least got one once in their computing lifetime, but i am curious to why that colour?
I mean, you'd think it might be red or something since red is associated with warnings and anger
Although, i must admit, Red screen of death doesn't hvae the same zing or appeal of the former.

Any other apt colours you can think of? or the reason why it's blue in the first place?
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Old 12-15-2003, 10:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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White on (true) blue is very easy to read, maybe it was there assuming a million things could be going wrong, and the display could be messed up... so it would be best to make it clear and "crisp".

I'm just making that up, though.
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Old 12-15-2003, 10:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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hmm blue and white are associated with freezing, and thats what a BSOD is sort of

probaly just clarity as fractured said, its a colour scheme that works really well, makes you pay more attention than just black and white without being obnoxious
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Old 12-15-2003, 10:43 PM   #4 (permalink)
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well you cant call something a blue screen of death if its not blue
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Old 12-16-2003, 06:37 AM   #5 (permalink)
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well you cant call something a blue screen of death if its not blue
I like that.

To this day, I get chills running up my spine when I see that color blue. I started getting random BSODs right after I flashed the BIOS on my brand new $300 Radeon 8500. I thought for sure I had fried it. Turned out to be a bad stick of RAM.
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Old 12-16-2003, 07:28 AM   #6 (permalink)
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ya, it doesn't happen much with xp unless you have serious hardware problems. it's definately scary. On the other hand, i wander what it would be like if instead the screen was red. i bet many peopel would smash thier computer screen (red makes you angry)
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Old 12-16-2003, 02:11 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Microsoft's corporate colors are white and blue. Hmm...
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Old 12-16-2003, 02:22 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Doesn't answer your question, but it is believed that the first use of the term BSOD comes from this haiku, which was part of a haik error message contest:
Quote:
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death
No one hears your screams.
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Old 12-16-2003, 02:51 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Hell ---I get so many blue screens on this old Dell v350 that i consider it SOP...

got rid of a lot of them by down loading a bunch of patchs...
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Old 12-16-2003, 06:30 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I got the Blue Screen a month ago, my computer had to get ghosted. I was in the middle of tpying in Word and the Blue Screen popped up and then Windows was GONE. So they ghosted the C: drive (all my data was on the D: partition luckily)
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Old 12-16-2003, 08:35 PM   #11 (permalink)
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For those of you who want to, here's a site detailing how to change the color of your bluescreen to something else.

http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/bsodchange.htm
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Old 12-17-2003, 01:06 AM   #12 (permalink)
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well red would be hard on your eyes if it was dark and the only light was the monitor..
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Old 12-17-2003, 01:33 AM   #13 (permalink)
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speaking of blue...

i saw an XP pro box bsod for the first time tonight.

I was almost under the impression i'd never have to see it again
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Old 12-17-2003, 12:43 PM   #14 (permalink)
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i wonder if theres anyone left at the company that made NT, we can call and ask
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Old 12-17-2003, 02:31 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I heard something about blue having the lowest or highest hertz out of all the colours and that's also why the sky is blue, out of default. So that means it's the easiest colour to display. They say that nature is lazy and apparently so is microsoft. I'm sorry about being so vague but I really dont know what im talking about, mostly.
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