Red screen of death?

Microsoft has come up with a unique solution to the legendary 'blue screen of death' in the next version of its Windows operating system. With the release of Longhorn, the Redmond behemoth has added a red screen to face users when their system crashes.

According to Microsoft techie and blogger Michael Kaplan, who has been experimenting with a Longhorn beta, as well as being confronted with the blue screen of death, now users will also see red.

The red screen of death appears to be the bigger, badder cousin to the traditional blue screen and is designed to let users know that a more serious error has occurred, Kaplan said.

It's unlikely that the problem will affect many users of the next generation operating system. Kaplin, Microsoft's technical lead for globalisation infrastructure, fonts and tools, said that he had only achieved the red screen of death by making a "small set-up change" and altering the registry.

This "somewhat destructive act", said Kaplin, provoked a red screen of death after he rebooted Longhorn's virtual image, where previous versions of Windows returned a black screen with a different error message following the same treatment.

"I am not sure I would class the change as an improvement," Kaplin said.

[judgedeath08]

The Red Screen of Death.

So I have to complain and report that microsofts mythical creature the red screen of death from Longhorn has npw raised its ugly head in the real world, and not just the stuff of virtual machines and betas. I run Vista x64 Ultimate and it is patched and upped to SP1 and I have now seen 6 of them, yes I know, people see UFO's and the Loch Ness monster, and like them I managed finally to capture my beast on film.

Here is a link to the picture of my RSOD..

http://picasaweb.google.com/AndySClose/StuffFromWorkAndRSOD/photo?authkey=FeK8q0Dt02s#5230352036852864306

I wanted to share this with you.. I hope that someone can explain why the creature of myth raised it head, the dump code is a 109.. ummn. i have not been able to reproduce this error, but it wil happen occasionally all on its own.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

system: athlon 64-- x2+, msi k9a2 platinum, 2 x 3870 radeon 512 crosffire, 8gb DDR2 800, vista x64 ultimate sp1, WD 150gb Raptor, 2 x 500gv Seagate SATA. Ultra 750w modular PSU, antec 900 gaming case.

[pahrahinc]

I get a red screen on ocassion on my Gateway FPD 1730 Monitor Screen. I don't have a clue as to what causes it. I run Windows XP Professional with service pack 3 and use Norton 360. I would appreciate any info on what to do to get rid of this condition. Thanks! [e-mail]

[landman44]

I run Windows XP Home Edition, I have just recently had two occurrences of the "red screen". Once while in a word document and once at start up. Help!