Blue screen of death fix, the Blue Screen of Death also known as a Stop Error, Blue Screen, Blue Screen of Doom, BSOD, Bug Check Screen or Stop Screen is an error screen displayed by an operating system after a crash. There is a great possibility that you will have heard of or seen the Blue Screen of Death. It turns the computer or laptop screen completely blue with an error code. A Blue Screen of Death is the worst type of error a computer or laptop can experience, unlike other crashes like an application crash, which doesn’t bring down or completely affect the whole system. A Blue Screen of Death is the result of low-level software crashing or a faulty hardware and it affects the whole system.
Causes of Blue Screen of Death
Blue Screen of Death is caused by hardware problems or conflicts or issues with low level software running in the Windows kernel. A blue screen can also occur when Windows encounters a “STOP ERROR” This critical failure causes Windows to crash and stop working. The only thing Windows can do is stop the computer and restart it. This process can lead to data loss, as programs don’t have a chance to save their open data. Normally, programs should continuously save their data so a blue screen of death or other type of error won’t result in data loss. When a blue screen occurs, Windows automatically creates a “mini dump” file that contains information about the crash and saves it to your disk. You can view information about these mini dumps to help identify the cause of the blue screen.
Fixing Blue Screen of Death
If you just installed a new hardware, the Blue Screen of Death can possibly be be caused by an incorrect driver. To fix this problem boot Windows into Safe Mode (by tapping F8 just before the Windows logo appears). In Safe Mode, go to Control Panel > System > Hardware Manager to uninstall the device.
Other causes of Blue Screen of Death are faulty RAM, a computer trying to boot from a corrupt CD and bad capacitators on the motherboard, though this is very rare. Blue Screen of Death can also occur due to file corruption. To fix this boot from the Windows installation CD and go to the Recovery Console. From the command line run chkdsk /r to fix file errors. Once chkdsk is done, exit the Recovery Console and try restarting the computer.
Even if the Operating System seems to start normally now without any problem, you still need to run the manufacturers hard drive diagnostic program to check for hardware errors. If Windows is running but the hard drive fails the test, then it means that you need to get a new hard drive. Chkdsk has only temporary put a hold on the original problem and the Blue Screen of Death stop error will return. If after running chkdsk Windows still crashes with a Blue Screen, but the diagnostic program report shows that the hard drive is good, then the hard disk can be used again. In this case, you need to first recover the data. After that, run the Windows installation program, remove the partition and format the hard drive. Do not use the "quick format" option. Removing the partition and formatting the hard drive erases ALL data on the drive and this process rectifies the problem.
