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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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group policy service pack 3 BSOD

Has anyone had any problems pushing out sp3 though active directories group policy. I have a had full of Dell Optiplex 740 PC running xp pro SP2 w/AMD Atholon 64 x2 4050e. Every time i push out sp3 after reboot i get a BSOD "STOP: 0x0000007E…
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Further Diagnosis of BSOD 124

We are experiencing spurious BSOD's (about once in 1..2 days, time varies) on a Hyper-V Server. I've come as far as this: Bug Check code 124 e.g. 0x00000124 (0x0000000000000000, 0xfffffa800a3bf558, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000). Parameter…
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Windows 2016 rebooting randomly bugcheck dump file

Windows 2016 server reboots randomly, about once a week. Any ideas? here is the memory dump log Bugcheck Analysis * * …
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VMware + Vista 64 = bluescreen?

I'm running a Windows Vista Business x64 laptop and my laptop seems to bluescreen (BSoD) after I install VMware (im using VMware Workstation 6.5). When I have VMware installed it always bluescreens on startup. So I'm already logged in then it…
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Disable CHKDSK without being able to bootup

The system I am working on started to randomly reboot, thinking it was a harddrive error (we've had two machines fail due to this already), I rebooted the computer to run chkdsk. Now the problem is that waiting the 1.5 hours for CHKDSK to complete,…
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BSOD on windows server 2008 R2 reason Srv2.sys Driver_IRQL_not_Less_or_Equal

I have a issue that i have been facing with my windows server 2008 R2 (ADC Server) Additional Domain Controller (Roles Installed AD,DNS). It suddenly gives a BSOD i did analyse the dump and found out the case of a driver that is Srv2.sys with a bug…
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VMware causes BSOD on virtual machine boot

I've got VMware 9.1 installed on Windows 8 Pro. I'm trying to run a virtual machine of Fedora 13 created on this computer. It is installed on an external hard drive, and I last opened the vm on a computer at my school running VMware 8 on Windows…
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Hyper-V VM bluescreens upon LiveMotioning

I am doing some testing with Hyper-V LiveMotion, and when I stress the VM and try to LiveMotion it, sometimes it'll work just fine, sometimes it'll restart and give no clear error, sometimes it just "fails" and I have to manually restart the VM. The…
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STOP: c000021a, Status 0xc000026c

After rebooting my Server 2003 cause of an Windows update, if got the following BSOD. Neither "safe mode" or "last good known configuration" nor checkdisk working. Cause this error could have be much different reasons, this thread should collect…
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Windows in crashing with Blue screen of death

This is a recent problem I am facing with windows 10 in laptop. I first noticed that while installing a game 'League of Legends' client in Garena platform. The installation struck and it first showed the blue screen. I don't remember the stop code.…
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PC Randomly crashes with c000021a code

At work we have some PCs that run on Windows XP SP2 (They are segmented away from the internet) and they have been having some issues which strike me as strange, there is 6 PCs that went down, all within 10 mins of each other. All these PCs present…
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