PVI2 bug

Credit to who made the 2007 disaster bug patch, this page was inspired by that, go check it out!

The PVI2 bug is a programming bug that affects older underperforming Windows operating systems, most commonly Windows 9x systems, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Because of the bug, operating systems will freeze, crash, and will enter a boot up loop. This bug will occur very rarely, and will happen when a computer’s CPU exceeds a percentage of 87% unexpectedly. The bug was discovered on April 2011, when YouTube user “F00F”, who uploaded a video to the platform, stating that their computer shut down randomly and entered a boot loop, never being able to recover the OS again. The bug was named PVI2 due to the user’s keyboard typing PVI2 randomly, before crashing and getting stuck in the loop.

The PVI2 bug was fixed mostly in May of the same year it was discovered, being 2011. Microsoft caught notice of the video, which at the time, had 1,200,000 views. The bug was patched around the time that the 2007 disaster bug patch was finally killed off on every Windows system.