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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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Server 2008 BSOD about once a week

I'm in quite a bind here, hopefully someone can help. Here's what I have: Dell R710 with one Xeon 2.7 GHz processor, 18GB Ram, Server 2008 x64 SP2 I'm running HyperV with about 5 servers. Starting in Jan I've had problems with crashing. First time…
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BSOD Stop Message in Safe Mode only, normal XP boot works?

I know normally it is the other way around, but after some hacking in the registry on two Windows XP Home SP3 machines, they boot fine in normal mode and work without problems but when booting into Safe Mode, I get a Stop Message 0x0000007B. The…
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Corrupted RDP Certificate

One of our machines crashed earlier, so I connected to it to find out what the issue was. It has been spitting out the following error in the logs for the past couple of days apparently... The RDP protocol component X.224 detected an error in the…
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What do you do if MemTest86+ finds an error?

I've built two similar Hyper-V servers. One is OK but other Windows Hyper-V Core fails in 1~4 days (BSODs with different reasons). The only different parts are CPU & RAM. Now I'm testing the failed server with MemTest86+ and got an error; Test:8…
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Server 2003 SP2 BSOD caused by fltmgr.sys

I'm running into a problem where a Server 2003 SP2 box has started crashing roughly once an hour, BSODing out with the message that fltmgr.sys is probably the cause. I ran dumpchk.exe on the memory.dmp file, indicating the same thing. Any thoughts…
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BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER installing windows server 2008 r2

I am trying to install windows server 2008 r2 onto my server which is hp prolient dl380 g5. i first use the hp smart disk followed by the windows cd every time i get near the end of the windows installation i get a blue screen saying…
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Windows Server 2003 + WMI = Regular Bluescreens

I have serious problems with machines running Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition. I've written an application which queries periodically the system status using the WMI database. The database is opened/closed for each request separately to make sure…
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Server 2008 R2Crashes

We're running a setup as follows using Hyper-V: Windows Server 2008 R2 (Hyper-V Host) | |-- SBS 2008 (DC) |__ Windows Server 2008 R2 (TS) Recently we've experienced multiple crashes that we cannot pin down. When we look at the server…
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Windows crash dump

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Unexpected shutdown of Server (BSOD) with message “WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR”

When we checked the system event log we found that following warning has been logged repeatedly. Event 17 A corrected hardware error has occurred. Component: PCI Express Root Port Error Source: Advanced Error Reporting (PCI…
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Dedup.sys 0x7E after inplace upgrade Server 2016 => 19

I've recently performed an in-place upgrade from Server 2016 => 2019 (non-domain). 2 of the drives connected has been configured with data deduplication (mostly VHDs for Hyper-V). Ever since the upgrade, attempting to access, reverse dedupe…
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Planned reboot of Hyper-V guest caused unplanned Hyper-V host reboot

System: Windows Server 2016 Standard, fully patched, both host and guest(s). A strange thing happened today when I rebooted one of my Hyper-V guests (by RDP-ing to the guest and manually triggering a reboot). Here are the relevant parts of the event…
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BSOD Critical_Process_Died after enabling Windows Defender Firewall

Server 2019 1809 17763.914 running Remote Desktop Services and all updates are applied. On reboot, the Windows Defender Firewall is stopped (even though it is set to automatically start) and when I manually start the service (via any command line,…
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Creating repeatable BSOD scenarios (for teaching)?

This could probably just as easily go in stackoverflow or a few other places, but I expect I will get the best answers here since there are always lots of blue screen issues waiting to be resolved. I'm interested in any blue screen scenarios the…
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Crash Dump error 0x80070057 - Windows Server 2003R2 SP2 BSOD BackupExec related

as of last night we have had an IBM Server running 2003R2 BSOD a couple of times and I have been trawling the net for answers ever since. I've pinned down what triggers it and that is a BackupExec job which has ran without error for as long as I can…
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