Purple Screen of Death
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A purple screen of death (Also known as PSoD, purple screen of doom or purple screen) is the name of a fatal error. It is most known to happen in VMware ESX, although it is also known to happen on Windows Vista and the Nintendo DS.
VMware ESX
Windows Vista
It is possible to get a PSoD on Windows Vista. This can be caused by the WDDM drivers partially crashing and DWM not properly deactivating. It is caused by the video driver failing to render a dialog box after it stops responding in the grayed out tone, and is not a traditional screen of death in that there is no fatal error or need to restart the computer, and it does not take up the entire screen. [1]