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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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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (msiscsi.sys) - how to troubleshoot/resolve?

I am using Windows 8.1 Pro x64 with all updates installed. My machine is Lenovo W540 laptop and I have connection to iSCSI target (using gigabit wired Ethernet). iSCSI target is Synology NAS (DS415+). Quite frequently I'm getting BSODs and system…
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Windows 2008 virtual machine fails to boot after incorrect shutdown

My host machine lost power and after reboot the Windows 2008 virtual machine hosted in it, dumps a blue screen on boot. If I try SafeMode, it gets stuck on loading \Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys - it waits for a few minutes and then…
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Virtualized Windows 2008 R2 throws random BSOD, but writes no minidumps

we are experiencing random BSODs inside a customers VMware-hosted RemoteDesktop-server. The BSODs happen nearly weekly. Curious thing is, the virtual machine does not write any dumps we could analyze, no minidumps in %systemroot%\minidump and no…
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Intermittent Windows Server 2008 BSOD and restart

Our EC2 Instance (Windows Server 2008) crashed multiple times for the past 3 months (last time was today at 1:05 EST). Upon reviewing MEMORY.DMP file we noticed that possible cause of the crashes is rhelnet.sys (RedHat PV NIC Driver). Server's Event…
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Analyzing crash dump file from Windows 2003 R2 SP2

My Windows 2003 R2 SP2 server crashes about once a month. I analyzed the crash dump but can't really figure out what it means. Any help is appreciated.... Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.2.9200.20512 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft…
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Can I turn off a faulty core temporarily on my CPU?

I have the following CPU: AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Series Phenom X4 Model HD960ZWCGDBOX Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Processor I'm getting BSODs and an event code: A corrected hardware error occurred. …
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NT 4 inaccessible boot device

We have two NT4 SP6 machines that are identical. One of them went down and gives a bsod on boot with 'inaccessible boot device'. We assumed the hard drive went bad. So we attempted to take an image of it with Norton Ghost but it error-ed out way to…
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Virtual to Physical desktop cloning

I am trying to clone a VMware Workstation VM so I can load it on the computers around our office. The VM in question is a Windows XP SP3 VM with a 40GB IDE VMDK. I am seriously missing something and I am close to giving up on this. The problem…
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Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server (SBS) not generating crash dump on BSOD

I have a very frustrating issue. Our Windows Server running 2003 SBS SP2 is not generating crash dump files on a BSOD. I am currently troubleshooting an issue where a critical 3rd party service causes a BSOD when we try to start that service. This…
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AMD Opteron BSOD - A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocation time interval

On one of our servers we got an -for me new- BSOD with the error message: "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocation time interval" The server's specs: HP XW9400 2x Dual-Core AMD Opeteron 2224 SE 3,20Ghz…
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BSOD Dump - EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT - ON Windows 2008 Server 64bit

My windows 2008 server (datacenter edition) 64bit , has recently created a series of BSOD on different applications. The error message is in general EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT. Can anyone please help with the analysis of the dump file below? 2: kd>…
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MEMORY_MANAGEMENT crash on Windows Server 2008

My Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine has blue-screened twice in the last month. In both occasions, the reported STOP cause was a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error, and the parameter 1 value was 41790 ("An unknown memory management error occurred", according…
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MDT Captured Win7 Image Crashes on Boot once Deployed

I am trying to get MDT set up for Windows 7 machines so that my life can be less hellish until we finish getting these machines out the door. MDT Server: Windows 2008 R2 MDT 6.3.8450.1000 WDS 6.1.7600.16385 I have no problems with Windows 10…
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Windows Server 2012 BSOD after VSS Shadow Copies

After the recent installation of the following KB's: KB4103730, KB4096416, KB4095872, the server would BSOD once a shadow copy starts. A sfc /scannow finds issues but also states there were some components that cannot be repaired and to check the…
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Windows Server 2016 running off iSCSI BSOD after power loss

I've got a setup where I'm hosting the Windows Server 2016 images on a Solaris 11 ZFS SAN over iSCSI. These images began as baremetal installs then I used Clonezilla to clone them to the dedicated SAN volume. Once I do this I remove the harddrive,…
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