DannyMinick.com » BSOD http://www.dannyminick.com @DannyMinick on Twitter. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:41:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Microsoft gives me the blues. http://www.dannyminick.com/12/01/34/ http://www.dannyminick.com/12/01/34/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:31:17 +0000 Danny Minick http://dannyminick.com/?p=34 Today, I was going to my PC to burn some audio files to CD. I start up Windows XP on my PC that I built myself. Now, mind you, this is the third PC I have built with no problems. And yes, it has the neon glow, blu-ray burner, etc.

The specs on this particular PC are as follows:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.66 GHz
  • 3 GB of Ram
  • Two 160GB Hard Drives and a 40GB Backup drive
  • Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3

I go to start up Nero, and burn the first CD with no problems. I go to insert another CD, and I get a bloody welcome to a BSOD. So I reboot.

I do the same process again, and BSOD #2 appears. I reboot.

I makes it to the Windows XP welcome screen, and BSOD #3 appears. I reboot, this time with a Windows 7 disc in hand.

I install Windows 7, with no trouble, and finish my CD burning tasks.

I think Nero may have killed my Windows XP OS. And if that’s all it takes to kill an OS, thanks Microsoft. So here’s to Windows 7!

It’s a good thing I have several Macs. Those are my primary systems. And they never fail. NEVER.

But I am still a fan of Windows. I grew up on Windows, mostly. My father had a Macintosh Performa in the early 90’s, which I still have to this day.

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