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BSOD stands for Blue Screen of Death. It is a full-screen error message generated on Windows systems when the operating system encounters a kernel or driver issue from which it cannot recover.

BSOD stands for Blue Screen of Death. It is a full-screen error message generated on Windows systems when the operating system encounters a kernel or driver issue from which it cannot recover.

Upon receiving a BSOD, the user has no choice but to restart the computer.

In Windows 8, the blue screen of death is no longer exactly blue, and is more "user-friendly" than in previous Windows versions.

Windows 8 BSOD example

From Windows 2000 through Windows 7/Server 2008 R2, the blue screen of death was a blue screen with detailed error data, which users often found confusing.

Windows BSOD example

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How to diagnose a Windows blue screen?

Sometimes I have to answer support calls responding to PC crashes with blue screens. How can I effectively narrow down the problem giving the information on that screen? What are the most important questions I have to ask the user? Edit: By…
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BSOD 0x09c on 50 SuperMicro machines

For a project we have 50 servers all equiped with (generally) the same hardware. The issue we have here is very serious and happens on all machines. Despite a lot of effort and contacting manufacturs and the software developpers everyone points to…
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Random BSOD's on Windows Server 2012 R2

As of late I have been getting random BSOD's on a Windows 2012 R2 server. It seems to be happening once a day, and can not pinpoint exactly why. Any help with this would be amazing! I have done a registry clean, and also updated all drivers. It…
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Corrupt (?) ReFS causing blue screen when drive is mounted

On Windows Server 2019, I have an 8 drive Storage Spaces pool that contains many volumes, only one of which is ReFS formatted. (The rest are NTFS.) My server recently spontaneously started blue screen looping in the middle of some very heavy FS…
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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE on Hyper-V 2012 R2 virtual machines

I have a Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster, 4 Dell PowerEdge R620 servers connected to a Dell PowerVault MD3600F storage array by means of FC connections; it's all pretty straightforward, all servers run WS2012R2, the cluster was freshly built a couple of…
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Where is minidump file?

I have been getting frequent BSODs and need to find the minidump file. It doesn't appear to exist. I checked the entire c drive.
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Is it possible to repair a windows image using DISM from WinPE

I have a Hyper-V VM that will not boot, bluescreening saying PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA I can boot into WinPE (recovery), but cannot boot in safe mode. Is it possible to run DISM from WinPE, and do a restorehealth command on the installed Windows…
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Getting a BSOD after upgrading to MOSS SP2

Recently we updated a SharePoint test server to MOSS SP2. After doing so, a series of errors appeared in the error log, along with a random blue screen of death. After the BSOD, the following screen appears: [tried attaching but cannot because I'm…
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How to verify power provided to processors is clean

Once in a blue moon, I am seeing a blue screen of death on a shiny new Dell R7610 with a single 1100 Watt Dell-provided power supply on a beefy UPS. BCode is 101 (A clock interrupt was not received...), which some say is caused by under-volting a…
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Analyzing BSOD dump file from Windows 2008 R2 SP1

I have a problem with a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server running withing VMWare. The server is running Citrix and also has Symantec Endpoint protection installed. It randomly crashes and goes to BSOD. Investigating the event log didn't…
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BSOD on Hyper-V guest Windows 2008 0xCA

I have a Hyper-V using Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter, inside this server I have a virtual machine with Windows 2008 Standard which had its Intregated Services update and reboot properly. After that, the VM starts and show BSOD as listed below - safe…
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How to enable system restart on BSOD from commandline

I got an Hyper-v core box and I need to turn automatic restart on. How can I do that?
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BSOD 90% of the time during a TrueCrypt mount

About 90% of the time when I mount a TrueCrypt share I get a blue screen of death. The error codes I see in the BSOD vary. The last two I saw mentioned eamon.sys and irql_less_than_or_equal. Windows 7 Professional TrueCrypt 7.0a ESET NOD32 AV I am…
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Diagnosing bad RAM

I'm trying to diagnose the problem with an unstable HP Pavillion DV4 with 4 GB of RAM. I'm getting BSODs and several errors trying to install software, etc. I've tried running memtest86 3.5 off a CD - it hangs up almost immediately, at 46% of test…
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BSOD Error codes

Where is the best place to find out information about blue screen of death 'STOP' and other error codes? Technet has a list but it doesn't seem to have the STOP code that I've seen: STOP 0x000000F4 (0x0000000000000003, 0xFFFFFA8070EFFC10, …
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