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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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Windows Server 2016 failed to boot on ESXi

I have 2 similar DELL Poweredge servers (ESXi 6.0 2809209). My servers contain some Windows Server 2008/2012. I can add an Windows Server 2016 Standard Desktop Experience normally on my first ESXi (T430 with 2xSandyBridge Xeon E5-2620). But this…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 (Hyper-V VMs) - random BSOD

I have a problem. My VMs (Hyper-V) - Windows Server 2012 R2 restart themselves quite often (BSOD: CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION (109)). Last time it was 11x over weekend. I have new HW, 2x Supermicro server. I installed Windows Server 2012 R2 and…
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Troubleshooting the dreaded 0x9C BSOD

We have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 running Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 with Service Pack 2 installed. Recently, we've been experiencing multiple STOP errors occurring with that server. Fortunately it is in place as a fail over machine so it…
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Blue Screen, unexpected shutdown on Windows Server 2012! (APC_INDEX_MISMATCH)

We have 2 new servers set up to allow remote desktop sessions throughout the warehouse. Intermittently we get complaints that the session has stopped working or has frozen. When we check the servers they have a blue screen with the error…
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Server 2008 32 bit SP2 random BSOD

First time poster, so please excuse if I forget anything here. I have a Windows Server 2008 SP2 32 bit server running on VMware ESXi 5.1 that is randomly dumping and rebooting itself. I have been digging around, and it seems to be related to a…
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How to recover Hyper-V Guest Domain Controller from Stop Error 0xc00002e2

Host is Server 2012 with single Hyper-V guest which is a Domain Controller. When booting the DC it gives a Blue Stop Error: 0xc00002e2 and then reboots. After third reboot it shows a recovery console with options for *Continue *Troubleshoot *Turn…
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Random servers in Citrix farm suddenly bluescreens (mostly 0x0000008e and 0x0000007e)

I'm responsible for a Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 farm. Starting Friday 30. November, my servers started to crash randomly. So far we've experienced 80 crashes, so it's obviously becoming an increasingly big problem for us. I have 12+ years…
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Moved Windows Server 2000 from IDE drive to SATA drive now get Inaccessible_Boot_Device BSOD

I'm moving my Small Business Server 2000 to newer hardware. I used Acronis TrueImage to create an image of the partitions on the current 250GB IDE drive and restored the images to partitions on a 750GB SATA drive. The new mainboard is an Intel…
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RDP to Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server randomly gives a blank screen at login?

Our uses randomly get a solid blue screen (desktop background colored blue, not BSOD) when logging into our 2008 Terminal Server. There is no TaskBar, no desktop icons, CTRL+ALT+Delete doesn't work, and no mouse events occur. The only way to end the…
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Troubleshooting Windows BSOD that tells me "The driver is mismanaging system PTEs"

I recently moved a hard drive from a Dell Optiplex 760 mini-tower to a 760 small form factor. All seemed OK until I attempted to remote desktop into it and recieved a blue screen of death stating that: The driver is mismanaging system PTEs. The…
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Hyper-V Windows 10 virtual machine continuously crashing with memory management blue screen

I am trying to create a virtual machine of a Windows 10 laptop using Sysinternals 'Disk2vhd utility. First I created a vhdx file of the laptops C: drive using the Disk2vhd utility. Afterwards I copied the vhdx file to my Windows 10 desktop computer…
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Interpreting minidump files from Windows Server 2008

I have a couple of minidump files generated by blue screen crashes on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine. I have installed the debugging tools and I am able to look at the contents of these files. However, I don't know how to find out the device…
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Server 2016 bluescreen vmswitch.sys

I am facing a serious issue on two Hyper-V-hosts with Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. Without external influence they crash and all guest VMs too. The STOP code is UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP 0x0000007f and it is caused by vmswitch.sys A simple…
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P2V SBS Windows 2008: Mass Storage Driver issue around SCSI IDE changes - Boot BSOD Error 0x0000007b, 0xc0000034?

Have done tons of reading on Spiceworks & outside on P2Vs, SBS, 2008, DC related threads and made lots of notes on all Pathways & Tools & Prep: (Please see Pg 1,2,3) so you know I've done the homework on all ways. Compiled…
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What steps are required to debug a memory.dmp? (walkthrough included)

I woke up to this in my eventlog today: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000ef (0xffffe0018668f080, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report…
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