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c0r3yb0y3tt   07-28-2009 at 07:43:25 PM

What is the cause of the red screen of death? How can i fix it?

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Dekasav   07-28-2009 at 09:51:37 PM
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....what's a red screen of death? I know of a red ring of death (XBox 360) and a blue screen of death (PC).

The red ring of death is caused by overheating.

The blue screen of death can have many causes, from bad memory to an unstable/overheating CPU.

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neon neophyte   07-28-2009 at 11:10:10 PM
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the red screen of death occurs after one drinks too much, blacks out... and wakes up over the corpse of some drunk lad.

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strangestranger   07-28-2009 at 11:41:45 PM
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Red screen of death is the same as blue screen of death just someone has changed the pre-set colour it turns to, can't recall without googling how you do that.

Is this your own or shared computer and is there an error message.

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photonboy   07-29-2009 at 12:09:00 AM
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Has anybody heard of a handy tool called GOOGLE?

It took me three seconds to find this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Screen_of_Death


Message edited by photonboy on 07-29-2009 at 12:09:26 AM
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overshocked   07-29-2009 at 12:14:24 AM
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^lol so is this guy using vista beta?

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neon neophyte   07-29-2009 at 12:50:00 AM
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not even just a vista beta, but a handful of EARLY vista betas.

somehow i dont think thats it. your google-fu is strong, your common sense is lacking.

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dzeric   07-29-2009 at 01:04:45 AM
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I'm gonna go with:
It is the blue screen of death for astronauts traveling fast enough to experience redshift.

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Dekasav   07-29-2009 at 06:06:26 AM
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In order to redshift you have to be moving relatively extremely fast toward another object, and if you're moving that fast, you can't see a computer screen as you fly past it, your eyes wouldn't focus on it in between when it was close enough to be in your sight and before it was out of your sight (aka behind you).

Nope. No noticeable redshifted BSoDs.

(Though I admit, a very clever idea. I just felt mean.)

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dzeric   07-29-2009 at 10:16:22 PM
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Dekasav wrote :

In order to redshift you have to be moving relatively extremely fast toward another object, and if you're moving that fast, you can't see a computer screen as you fly past it, your eyes wouldn't focus on it in between when it was close enough to be in your sight and before it was out of your sight (aka behind you).

Nope. No noticeable redshifted BSoDs.

(Though I admit, a very clever idea. I just felt mean.)


Actually the speed of light is a universal constant, it does not depend on the container that holds it. This means unlike sound which would travel through a moving objects cabin as if it was stationary, light would appear to slow down inside a rapidly moving spacecraft (when fired from rear to front). Because of this you can have a screen in a fast moving craft that is next to you and you will see the redshift occur. The rest of your cocpit would shift colors as well.
What this means is as you go faster in a space ship facing toward your screen which for some reason is situated at the rear of the craft, it would appear to turn red. If it were at the front firing back it would turn purple/ultraviolet and beyond.

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Hellboy   07-29-2009 at 10:50:45 PM
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isnt the red screen of death on a playstation 3

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strangestranger   07-30-2009 at 12:17:57 PM
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dzeric wrote :

Actually the speed of light is believed to be a universal constant, it does not depend on the container that holds it. This means unlike sound which would travel through a moving objects cabin as if it was stationary, light would appear to slow down inside a rapidly moving spacecraft (when fired from rear to front). Because of this you can have a screen in a fast moving craft that is next to you and you will see the redshift occur. The rest of your cocpit would shift colors as well.
What this means is as you go faster in a space ship facing toward your screen which for some reason is situated at the rear of the craft, it would appear to turn red. If it were at the front firing back it would turn purple/ultraviolet and beyond.



Fixed.

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