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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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Innaccessible Boot Device BSOD - 0x0000007B

I have a Dell Poweredge 1750 that until yesterday was booted up, and seemed ok. It then froze, and on restarting, was presented with BSOD - Innaccessible Boot Device - 0x0000007B Obviously, I've googled the issue, and thought it could be dead…
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Private information in BSOD *.dmp files

Does BSOD dmp files contain any private information (keys, passwords, etc)? Can they be shared without any risk of vulnurabillity?
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BSOD BugCheck on Multi-core system - What thread caused the crash?

I am aware that a Windows' system will crash with a stop error and "blue screen" for a few common reasons, some of which may be: A device driver or OS function that runs in kernel-mode space experiences an unhandled exception (memory access issues…
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VMware ESXi, uploaded virtual machines won't start

We just installed a new ESXi server to our office (LENOVO TS140, ESXi 6.0.0). If I create a new virtual machine on ESXi, it works well, but we have a lots of old virtual machines (not that old though, vmware workstation 10.0 and 9.0 Windows XP vms),…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 "WIN7_DRIVER_FAULT_SERVER SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION STOP: 0x0000003B

I need some help with my Windbg output on our Win Server 2008 R2 Standard installation. It is our mission critical production server and it crashes every 2 months or so. It's done it a couple of times already. Logs say it might be a driver, but…
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Shut down operating system by killing task

I came across quite an odd error recently and was wondering if anyone has any insight into it. I can't find any reference to such a scenario on Google so here goes... The rough sequence of events is like this: RDP into a Windows 2008 R2 and start…
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Random 0x0000007B BSOD, Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP Server

The server at my company has been acting strange for as long as I know. Since it is a production server, we rarely do a complete shutdown/restart, but when we do, at random times we got a BSOD for some several times before it finally boots back into…
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Hyper-V host - PFN_LIST_CORRUPT

I just built a new Hyper-V host machine. I installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, then installed the Hyper-V role. Now, while trying to install a guest OS (2008 R2) the guest will first bomb out with a disk corrupt error (at aprox. 65%…
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0xc0000225 error after P2V with VMWare Converter

I'm having an error with a P2V conversion of a Server 2008 R2 machine with VMWare Converter. The machine is going from an HP server to a Dell 2950. The machine fails to boot and spits out a 0xc0000225 error. I have read into this error quite…
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Installer for Windows Server 2008R2 blue screens under Hyper-V 2012

Trying to build an SQL Server cluster lab on an old Dell Latitude E6400 with 6gb RAM, using Hyper-V 2012. The install works great, I can create VMs and networks just fine, but when I try to boot the 2008 R2 install ISO, it blue screens like the…
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System Instability/BSoD/Network Connectivity Issues

If anyone has an idea, please help. This is my first post here, so I hope this post belongs on Server Fault, and that I followed all the rules. Here's the situation: A colleague of mine has a laptop PC/W7 Pro. He was having regular BSoDs (and of…
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Windows 2003 x64 crashing with "probably caused by: iaStor.sys"

My 2-year old mail server started crashing with BSOD about 2 months ago, and every time you check memorydump it says "Probably caused by : iaStor.sys ( iaStor+4b676 )". Initially it ran with Intel Storage manager version 8.6, then I upgraded to 8.8,…
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Multiple XP machines bluescreening simultaneously

What, other than magic, could cause multiple similarly configured XP Pro machines (non-domain joined, windows update disabled, no scheduled tasks) to bugcheck within 15 minutes of each other? The error message recorded in the event log is…
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vmware server to esxi 5 blue screen

I have a server centos 5.5 running vmware server 2 on it. I decided to install esxi5 on a different machine and test it. I copied one of my virtual machines on esxi 5. But machine I copied gives a blue screen error. I even converted copied machine…
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How to limit usb 2.0 port to work as usb 1.1 in ubuntu?

Ive got problem with kvm usb forwarding and printing (windows xp guest goes BSOD when i try to print something). Ive been adviced to change usb to 1.1 version. That only kvm works with 1.1 not 2.0 version of usb. How can i do this for certain port…
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