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Grey Screen of Death
28 Apr 2009Today I was taking part in an online presentation from Dr. Simon Ball of JISC TechDis; one of his regular HE updates. They use an online presentation system known as Instant Presenter to deliver the presentations on a roughly quarterly basis and they last for about half an hour. A genuine whistle-stop tour.
I connected to the specified URL in Firefox as usual and the presentation session kicked into life as usual. However about three or four minutes from the end my screen went grey. Totally grey! I couldn’t Alt-Tab, turn caps lock on, or do anything to get a response out of my PC. The audio from the presentation however did still continue to come through. It was this that makes me think that it was probably some flash component having a bit of a panic.
I haven’t been able to reproduce it or find anything in any of the logs, but it certainly made a strange difference to the usual blue screen of death and at least it was considerate enough to let me listen to the remainder of the presentation. Unfortunately it meant I had to just cut out at the end and pass on my apologies to Dr. Ball by e-mail from my phone whilst I stared my lovely grey screen of death (gsod) or is it more a grey screen of coma?
