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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Black Screen of Death</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="black-magic.html" title="black magic"/><link rel="next" href="blammo.html" title="blammo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Black Screen of Death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="black-magic.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blammo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Black-Screen-of-Death"/><dt xmlns="" id="Black-Screen-of-Death"><b>Black Screen of Death</b>: </dt></dt><dd><p> [prob.: related to the Floating Head of Death in a famous
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<i class="citetitle">Far Side</i> cartoon.] A failure mode of
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<a href="../M/Microsloth-Windows.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsloth Windows</i></a>. On an attempt to launch a DOS
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box, a networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks
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up the PC so hard that it requires a cold <a href="boot.html"><i class="glossterm">boot</i></a> to
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recover. This unhappy phenomenon is known as The Black Screen of Death.
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See also <a href="Blue-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Screen of Death</i></a>, which has become
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rather more common.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="black-magic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="blammo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">black magic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> blammo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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