Jan 9 2008Dell XPS Goes Blue Screen Of Death At CES
Well Dell was showing off their latest and greatest at the CES, including some systems running Crysis, and lo and behold an XPS system goes down in a blaze of Blue Screen Of Death. The funny thing is nobody seemed to do anything about it. It definitely sat there long enough for the Techeblog reporter to take a bunch of pictures. That is just completely unacceptable on Dell's behalf. Do they not train the employees displaying their products at the show? If I was there and had a computer go Blue Screen on me somebody better dive on that bitch like it's a live grenade about to blow up the platoon.
Another up close picture after the jump, so you can read the screen.
Dell XPS Demo Station Gets Blue Screened at CES [techeblog]
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Reader Comments
1. Ok - January 9, 2008 12:59 PM
1st
2. Austin - January 9, 2008 1:07 PM
HAHA thats great
3. DOC - January 9, 2008 1:18 PM
Funny thing is my XPS did that SAME thing!! TWICE!
4. Andrew - January 9, 2008 1:20 PM
That's epic win. I can imagine the face on the photographer's face when he saw this.
5. PB&J - January 9, 2008 1:22 PM
Unemployment line just got longer.
6. RandomNigel - January 9, 2008 1:40 PM
That's both an epic fail and an epic win.
Fail for the employees.
Win for the photographer.
7. DRL - January 9, 2008 1:40 PM
yeah, I have last years version of that XPS. same issue. Dell blows now.
8. Z3R0L4G - January 9, 2008 1:40 PM
funniest part is its not even dells hardware thats the problem thats nvidia's new drivers.
9. guate6 - January 9, 2008 1:41 PM
Heh, yet more proof as to why Dell sucks monkey anal pubes. All their crap is either too light to even get to BSOD (though some manage it), or they say their stuff is so packed with things and sell it, but then that also goes to BSOD. I think Dell should just quit...at everything.
10. guate6 - January 9, 2008 1:42 PM
Oh, and if it were me at CES, I'd have spares of just about everything, so if it was a driver problem, slap on another video card or something and crank the sucker up.
11. alex - January 9, 2008 1:54 PM
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA
THATS SO FUNNY !!! LOVE THE COMMENT !!!
12. Guy Smiley - January 9, 2008 2:11 PM
Looks like nvd_disp.dll. Probably the nVidia drivers running Crysis in Vista. My off brand PC did the same thing... Known issue.
13. TheAdamBomb - January 9, 2008 2:32 PM
I actually laughed out loud like a little geek when I read the last line of that post. Seriously, what Dell rep would not see that? Or even worse, ignore it.
PS- #12. Wow, way to be a Debbie Downer.
14. wiinja - January 9, 2008 3:24 PM
herro ra ra!
15. Karolijn - January 9, 2008 3:27 PM
Hey my Dell does that too! Maybe they think it's a feature.
16. Awesomeness - January 9, 2008 5:02 PM
yeah well i guess im the 4th one here with an xps
and guess what...
4 days after getting it i got the awesome blue screen.
awesome stuff
17. CAPITALLETTERS - January 9, 2008 5:52 PM
"lo and behold".
18. Mactastic - January 10, 2008 5:57 AM
If a new Porche super car debut ended in a fireball and mass decapitation it would be almost as sad as this. Dell should have to pay all our carbon taxes now.
19. B - January 10, 2008 1:35 PM
Ah the NV4_DISP.DLL bsod. I have a 720 and get these constantly. I've tried everything short of tearing components out of my computer to fix this, and nothing has worked. Bitches.
20. Sizza - January 11, 2008 5:30 AM
get a mac
21. Ozone - January 11, 2008 8:28 AM
Like people have said, it's an Nvidia driver problem. Their drivers suck for Vista.
22. Scott - January 11, 2008 10:26 AM
Epic fail...
23. blpressure - January 11, 2008 10:56 AM
Vista deserves more blame than Dell or Nvidia
24. Jerry - January 11, 2008 11:22 PM
That is funny, proof that Dell and Vista are junk. Dell has not had a decent product after their Pentium III line. Dell is a sinking ship and Vista is just, well, vista.
25. groonk - January 12, 2008 2:05 AM
well now. that looks familiar.
*glares at his dell inspiron with cautious contempt*
26. eipoe - January 12, 2008 6:18 PM
I get NV4_DISP.DLL BSOD issues from time to time. I have an older Dell Mobo with an nvidia chipset. It's generally something that i recently installed that it doesn't like. But it seems to be a fickle driver.
Best story yet. Dell issued a bios update for the board. So naturally, I update. After the flash the board won't recognize that I have two video cards. I had to roll back to an older version cause the new bios didn't support SLI...what the hell?
Oh well, it was more fun to build my own machines anyway.
27. pkg - January 13, 2008 12:07 AM
Problem with nvidia's driver playing crysis. To the dorks that say get a mac = sure and that will solve the problem because you can't play crysis on an icrap; or for that matter any game built in the last 3 years on it. RDF with no games.
28. Ricky Cohen - January 13, 2008 5:05 AM
Hello.
I purchased a XPS 720 for the sole purpose of playing Crysis and a few other games. After nearly a month of production delays, my XPS arrived. I had a huge number of problems - the BIOS wouldn't load randomly, blue screens when running Crysis, defective Nvidia 8800 GT SLI cards, wrong device drivers installed by Dell, etc. I was very very unhappy with Dell and complained loudly.
A replacement Dell arrived six weeks later (another horrible story) and it works better. I was dumfounded when some of the same problems cropped up again ..... the biggest problem is the BIOS loader ...... the system sometimes hangs during BIOS ---- and I have to turn off the power repeatedly to get the systgem to properly boot.
Please write to me at real_class2001@yahoo.com to share any BIOS experience you may have. Also, there's something wrong with running Crysis in DX10 mode. The frame rate is horrible. When running DX9, the frame rate quadruples.
I am ready to return both Dell 720 back to Dell and work with another vendor. I do believe there is something seriously wrong with Dell's quality process.
Rick
real_class2001@yahoo.com
29. Martha - January 13, 2008 9:04 AM
cool
30. Shae - January 13, 2008 9:33 AM
Funny funny funny. And where are all of you mac nay sayers now? Eating your words! Dells are absolute crap. And the warcraft ones are just laughable.
31. Bobeyo - January 14, 2008 3:49 PM
Hey, Mac-heads: don't get all high and mighty just because a stupid Dell bit the dust. That's like the loser of a race celebrating because the guy just ahead of him crashed. Yeah, the other guy took a dive, but nobody cares because you're still both losers. Dells and Macs are both equally gay, and I'd rather build a computer out of spare parts in a junkyard then buy one of their overly-advertised pieces of mass-produced carbon.
32. Seymour Butz - January 14, 2008 8:32 PM
Hahaha, that's funny Bobeyo - defending PCs by saying "I can build a better PC." Great, so the 1% of the PC market which is made up of homebuilts is better... too bad all PCs will be judged by the top 10 vendors, since they comprise over 75% of unit sales, because like it or not - that's the PC base.
FWIW, this particular bluescreen would've taken down your homebuilt, since it's a bug nv4_disp.dll - NVidia's driver, which runs in Ring 0 (hence the BSOD). Install that driver on your homebuilt and it can bluescreen too - more than likely Dell was running a custom built driver from NVidia to get the greatest effect from the latest 'n greatest NVidia hardware installed in that unit.
33. anonymous - January 14, 2008 11:58 PM
Not only is it embarrassing for Dell but another slap on the face for Microsoft. Vista sucks!!! And whoever was there at the Dell booth, kiss your day job's goodbye (lol)
34. Cfosu - September 11, 2009 9:15 AM
Soo when can I buy Dell, now? I want it! The whole thing.
35. Glenn - September 20, 2009 12:02 PM
Not everybody has problems with Dell Computers. I totally agree Vista sucks monkey dick. I use XP Pro on my 3 Dells with no problems. On the other hand, my imac crapped out right after the warranty expired. Cost more to fix than it was worth, so I sold it for parts on ebay for next to nothing. You Apple fanboys can blow me
36. James Smith - September 23, 2009 10:10 AM
Actually, this was just Truth in Advertising on the part of Dell. Everyone could see what a total POS their stuff is and what to expect if they're dumb enough to buy one. At least they'll have no reason to complain, they were warned and very publicly, too!
37. louis vuitton - September 28, 2009 8:06 AM
HAHA thats great
38. ass - November 1, 2009 3:07 AM
You f'n idiots.....
has nothing to do with Dell, its clearly an operating system/drivers issue