The Windows “Blue Screen of Death” Is Becoming the “Black Screen of Death”

[Kenrou]

"Many features have come and gone over the long history of Windows, but one has been present from the beginning: the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" (BSoD). However, it's looking like Microsoft will drop the iconic blue color in an upcoming build of Windows 11–among other changes. Microsoft announced the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3653 for the beta channel, and with it comes a number of changes to the Blue Screen of Death–officially known as a "Stop Error." The screen has been given a facelift with a much more minimal and streamlined look that isn't as scary. The new BSoD simply reads, "Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart," with a progress percentage underneath. The stop code error is at the bottom of the screen. Gone is the sideways frowning face and QR code, as well as the blue background color. Instead, it's plain black."

The Windows “Blue Screen of Death” Is Becoming the “Black Screen of Death”

End of an era.

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[Woomack]

If you have an AMD card, then sometimes it's even a green screen

Btw. that black screen was recently happening after some large updates. Two clients' servers froze on the update window. What's worse, both servers restarted automatically and froze even though both had disabled automatic updates. I guess it just went into the black mode after the update that changed the blue screen into the black one ... and then crashed.