Blue screen of death or BSOD Windows system error help

The Blue Screen Of Death or bsod can instil fear into just about any computer user, not only does the name make things sound kind of terminal, but when looking at the content of the screen it can only makes matters worse as it really makes little sense to most computer users.
But there are a number of simple fixes that any computer literate person can do.

Where did the name come from?
The name has been around a long time in computing terms, and has become widely used over the past 10 years.

It originated from development of IBM’s OS/2 operating system and as the name suggests the original errors encountered on a blue screen were much more terminal than those encountered using Windows operating systems.

Why does the Blue Screen of Death Occur?
The bsod occurs when the Operating systems Kernel or an application driver running in Kernel mode encounters a critical error that the system cannot recover from, the only action that can be taken with this type of error is a complete system halt. When this happens any unsaved files will probably be lost.

How to read blue screens
This Windows system error can be seen on windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT4, ME, 98, 95 operating systems.

The stop 0X1E type error messages as in the illustration indicates that the operating system Kernel has detected an error, this is usually due to files or applications trying to the Kernels protected memory area.

The stop 0XA usually indicates a driver issue, this can be generated by driver updates, non compatible drivers, corrupted drivers or faulty hardware, luckily many 0XA errors display the problem driver or drivers which means it’s relatively easy to pinpoint the fault, from here you have a number of choices

Common blue screen of death fixes
Have there been any changes to your system? Such as BIOS changes, memory upgrades, even adding peripherals such as video or sound cards.

The first step is to back track and put the computer back to the previous configuration.

As with any Windows system error the very last thing you want to do is to completely rebuild your computer, but there are a number of possible fixes that can be performed by most pc users.

Booting from safe mode simply upgrade or downgrade the specified driver.

Probably the easiest way to resolve blue screen of death errors is to simply hit the F8 key on startup and then selecting last known configuration that worked, this can solve issues in a few seconds.

The next way is by using the system restore function, to read more on this checkout our system restore article.

Windows repair did you know you can run a Windows system repair that will set windows back to its original configuration? Checkout our Windows repair guide for more information.

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