What is a BSoD?

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 March 2010 06:27 Written by admin Tuesday, 2 March 2010 07:16

The Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD, bluescreen, or Blue Screen of Doom) is a colloquialism used for the error screen displayed by some operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error that can cause the system to shut down to prevent irreversible damage to the system’s integrity. It serves to present information for diagnostic purposes that was collected as the operating system issued a bug check.

If so configured, the system will dump all of its memory to a file on disk. Data in memory would then be lost but in some circumstances it could be retrievable from the dump file, a process that must be carried out by a trained PC technician.

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3 Comments

1. Gomez   |  Friday, 05 March 2010 at 1:33 pm

   It’s a pain in the butt… that’s what it is!

   
2. James Lee   |  Monday, 22 March 2010 at 3:36 pm

   I just reformatted a PC at home, and have so far installed three service packs and 81 critical updates. What a nightmare…

   
3. admin   |  Monday, 22 March 2010 at 9:10 pm

   Nice sites James. Thanks for the comments.