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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 2003 Restarts after bootscreen

Im working with a dell server with windows server 2003, after installing SQL Server, the system restarts after bootscreen everytime. On options menu (when you press F8) I disabled "restart on failure", the system shows me the following message; Can…
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Lenovo X220T bluescreen with problems shutting down

We have several Lenovo X220T with Windows 8 x64 which are occasionally causing DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (0x0000009f) bugcheck/bluescreens. The systems are using OEM drivers for most everything and the issue does not seem to be related to any one…
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BSOD FLxHCIc after recovering from Sleep

My Asus laptop (N73S) crashes after recovering from sleep. Dump file analysis (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009.aspx) indicates a problem with FLxHCIc.sys which is a driver for Fresco USB 3.0 driver. How to solve this issue?
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Server 2008 blue screen after login - no desktop

I came into work today to find that our Windows Server 2008 used as a terminal server for the Thin Clients was not loading the users desktops. What I have found out is that when I login via Remote Desktop, after applying user settings, it gets to…
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Windows server 2008r2 crashed overnight - dump log

My windows server crashed overnight last night with a BSOD. I managed to get a log of the dump file which is here, it appears as if google chrome was the culprit, was wondering if anyone with more knowledge than me could dig out any more from this…
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W2k3 BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

I'm getting BSOD on a w2k3 machine either during startup (before the mouse cursor or CTRL-ALT-DEL login has appeared), or if I'm lucky enough the machine boots, but sooner or later the same BSOD appears. The message is : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL I…
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Blue Screen on MS Small Business Server 2003 clean install?

I am trying to do a clean install of Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 on a brand new Dell Precision Workstation T3400.  I am installing from boot cd.  Setup loads initial setup files (Adaptech, Qlogic, etc). Right after it says "Setup is…
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Windows desktop computer w/ no login screen after GoToMyPC user is done with it

I have a number of Windows XP SP3 machines on the domain that run GoToMyPC for remote access for contractors. Every once in a while, the contractors will call me up and tell me that they can't log in, all they see is a blue screen (not a BSOD). …
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kernel stack inpage error with blue screen death

I recently had the kernal stack inpage error and my system crashed. I read a few suggestions and tried a check disk. But no effect on that. Now, I even can not boot with any OS cds, the result is Nothing! How can I rollback the configuration make it…
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Windows 2003 BSOD's right before the logon screen

We have a quite urgent issue, where company old SBS server BSOD's right before presenting the logon screen. I ran the mini-dumps via the WinDbg, and got following output: CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION (f4) A process or thread crucial to system…
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Move Win2k3 to new hardware: STOP 0x0000007B (How can I get PERC drivers installed?)

I have an ancient celeron-based Windows 2003 SBS server on an old Dell machine. It has a very basic IDE non-RAID setup. The server is so old, it takes about 30 minutes to boot up and log in. A new Dell (ugh!) server was purchased with the intent…
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Server 2008R2 System Crashes when a non-local user logs in

I have a Server2008R2 box that is rebooting at "Applying Registry Settings" whenever an active-directory user logs in. If I remote in as myself it crashes, if I log in from the console as myself it crashes, but I can log in remotely and locally as…
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BSOD on Hyper-V after creating Virtual Network on Intel NIC

I have a home server with a Gigabyte P55M-UD2 motherboard, 16GB of DDR3 RAM, a i5 760 proc and 2 off-board Intel(R) Pro/100+ Management Adapter NICs. I installed a Windows 2008R2 Enterprise on my machine, and I've enabled Hyper-V role. Whenever I…
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What files does Windows Server 2003 R2 Ent need to boot successfully?

Help - I have a server which keeps rebooting. It brings up the Windows Server 2003 loading screen then reboots, continually. This happens whether I use normal mode, safe mode or last known good. I turned off auto-rebooting and got a BSOD with the…
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sfc scannow offbootdir=d:\ /offwindr=d:\windows server 2008 runtime

I've been getting bluescreen restarts during windows boot on a server 2008R2 machine. I've been running "sfc scannow offbootdir=d:\ /offwindr=d:\windows" for about 7 hours now. The windows partion is only 50GB. Is this a normal runtime on a Dell…
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