When was the last time you had a BSOD or kernel panic?

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Published on 2009-07-19T02:24:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 2:04 UTC
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The last time I saw a BSOD (Blue screen of death) was when Windows 7 tried to sleep in Parallels 3 which hadn't implemented ACPI for windows 7.

Apart from that I can't recall the last time I had a blue screen.

Has driver signing finally stopped frequent kernel panics?

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