Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: BSoD 101- A Crash Course
Imagine this: It is late at night, you are sitting at your PC enjoying a game or doing work on a project and all of a sudden Windows freezes completely. All the work is lost, and you are seeing a blue screen which is full of gibberish gazing back at your face. Windows is no longer there; it is dead, until you reboot it. You have no option left except to sigh loudly, shake your fist at Bill Gates (wishing he would be there) and exasperatedly press the reset button. You have just been seen the ghost of windows crashed known as the Blue Screen of Death.
Many know it as the “BSoD”. BSoD appears if the Windows crashes or locks up. In fact, it is a Windows “stop” screen, and is created to perform two things: tell you the cause behind the crash, and to calm down your reaction and nerves by using the blue color (research tells it has a relaxing impact on folks). Though Blue Screens are hard to decrypt, all the information you require to work out what made it is shown you in blue and white—and that’s where we will go into. We are going to tell you how to analyze the blue screen error info, so you can restore the problem that is making them.
BSoD 101: A Crash Course
Error Name
There are many important sections to a BSOD, but the basic one is right there at the top. The real name of the fault is showed in all caps separating words with an underscore.
In lot of cases this will be all that is required to reach the root of the trouble (give thanks to this handy guide you’re going to study). Many times, however, some more detail will be needed.
Troubleshooting Advice
Almost each BSOD shows lot of text including some important troubleshooting guidelines, the first one them recommends restarting the system. Gee, big tip from Microsoft. Before restarting, copy the whole all-caps error code shown there and hexadecimal values given around this section of generic text. The next paragraph gives good advice, warning the user to check whether their hardware is installed in the proper way, or to undo any fresh software/hardware installation or up gradation.
Memory Dump
Each BSOD is followed by a memory dump. What this entails is whenever Windows crashes; it will dump whatsoever it is having in system memory to a file. This file is saved on your hard disc which can be used for debugging purposes. If you contact Microsoft for technical help, they will ask you to provide the contents of that file.
Stop Code
The “technical information” part shows the actual Windows stop code, in very much easy hexadecimal pattern to read. Despite looking unintelligible at first sight, this set of numbers & alphabetic characters is helpful in detecting the reason of the crash. Give special attention to the first combination of numbers and alphabetic characters. It precedes the remaining four, which are written in parenthesis. If any of the drivers is having link with the crash, it will be shown on the right next line.
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