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Why did Windows 98 give us blue screens frequently?

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Mar 15, 20262824 views
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Unlike Windows XP, which seldom gave me a blue screen, I remember that, when I was using Windows 98, it often turned out in blue screen. Is there something wrong with Windows 98 that makes it particularly unstable?

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Fix for: Why did Windows 98 give us blue screens frequently?

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The main cause for a BSOD is a exception that was unhandeled in a driver that the system can not recover from. The main reason things have changed is the new driver system (WDM) is much more stable than the old system (VxD) at handling edge cases. N…

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