I was surfing PCApex and had a phone call (My girlfriend calling to tell me she going to come over in a bit) and I left my new laptop and went to talk her out on the porch. Now I just got this laptop last week and ever since Windows has just been downright horrible, I've had over 30 BSOD's and even the first time I powered it on it blue screened. I called Dell tech support etc, and did some researching and it seems to be one of my device drivers for my laptop which is causing the instability as all my hardware checks out fine through multiple diagnostic tests. I've even reformatted with a clean install of XP 3 times now.

Not really that big of a deal as I'm more of a Linux person and I will be using this laptop for Linux only stuff pretty soon as it will be used for doing some of the cross compiling for my distro. But when I came back inside from being on the phone I was shocked to find the following on my screen. This screenshot is 100% real, I did not modify it at all, I simply pressed print screen and pasted into MS Paint. Figured someone might get a laugh out of this.



EDIT: Hmm, the image isn't showing up for me, here is the link http://img474.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ntitledqw1.jpg

I had to use imageshack as it was to big for a forum attachment.

Ah you got the magic super bonus error message, if you can collect more than 30 BSD's in a week you recieve this free error message, you can recieve another magic error message if you proceed to score another 30 BSD's before the end of the month!

Sorry not a clue!

I'm not gonna try and tell you why that happened cause Ive got no idea .
But anything about a remote host connecting and disconnecting sounds a little fishy.

Is it WiFi Enabled?

Quote: Originally Posted by RBIEZE I'm not gonna try and tell you why that happened cause Ive got no idea . But anything about a remote host connecting and disconnecting sounds a little fishy. Is it WiFi Enabled?

Oh ya the error is deffinitely from my WiFi dying out for some reason (Probably caught some interference and lost the signal). I'm just wondering now if it's the Intel Pro Wireless driver that is causing the blue screens... hmm

Was there any program that was open that you think caused that? I've had similar things happen before, but never so neatly! Did you hit the option to align vertically, or did that happen by itself?

Quote: Originally Posted by Gzim Was there any program that was open that you think caused that? I've had similar things happen before, but never so neatly! Did you hit the option to align vertically, or did that happen by itself?

No idea, I'm guessing it did it by itself, I'm thinking the error message came from the software I use for my wireless NIC (I like to use it as it has more options then windows offers for controlling WiFi). It's kind of odd also that not all the error messages were the same.

EDIT: Actually I just figured out where the error messages came from, I run X-Chat (IRC Client) in the tray, and it appears that either my WiFi was dropping out a bunch of times and losing the connection to the Freenode.net servers, or which ever Freenode.net I was connected to had a bunch of net splits.