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 IBMs 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 its 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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