When You face Blue Screen Of Death

By VJ | May 15, 2008

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Most of us are not aware of what a Blue Screen Of Death is Or better known as BSOD is. Well a Blue Screen Of Death is nothing but a blue screen error many of us face while working on windows. Why Microsoft named it so, any clue? If you get, let me know as well. I have been searching for this answer for long now :) .
This screen can appear for many reasons, and a final answer to how it can be stopped has not been found yet. Either you make any changes or not, you just cannot say when you face this issue. But in case a faulty Device driver, hardware error etc. could cause these screens to come up further more often. One of readers Viky, asked me about the same issue, as he was facing the same. He was getting the error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, and Dumping Physical memory to Disk.

BSOD

In this case, Viky had a problem with the network card, as he already told me, and rest was understandable by the Error code he was facing. He had a problem with the driver of the network card, and Reinstalling it or Upgrading it solved the issue.
There may be other different error codes which could make your system face this issue. What should you do when you face this BSOD.

  • Firstly Don’t panic and check what new upgrades have been done to the system, in terms of both hardware and software.
  • Once done that, write down the error code you see, and check the possible reason for it provided here by Microsoft.
  • After that, check when you possibly face the issue, like while opening a particular file or using any particular hardware device, like in above case, Network card.
  • After that, match step 2 and 3, and come to a solution.

This should solve almost all the BSOD error messages.
If in future, you face this issue, do remember this post by giving it a Digg or a Stumble.

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8 Comments so far
  1. Vikram May 15, 2008 6:18 pm

    Hi VJ,

    Thanks for helping me out man. your solution really worked for me

  2. Syahid A. May 15, 2008 9:53 pm

    I never panicked, I just press the restart button. :D

  3. Jennifer May 16, 2008 5:28 pm

    I don’t think Microsoft named it the blue screen of death… I think it was affectionately called that by those who encountered it and it has stuck.

  4. Nirmal May 16, 2008 6:06 pm

    @Syahid,
    That was good one.
    Stumbled.

  5. Murtuza May 16, 2008 6:36 pm

    Hey
    Thanks for all the information you provide
    Its an amazing stuff
    Now i am facing a problem in my PC
    whenever I start windows, i get an error saying “Cannot find script VirusRemoval.vbs”
    can you help me out with it :

    Email at :murtuza89@yahoo.com

  6. Hendrawan May 16, 2008 7:01 pm

    Restarting doesn’t solve the issue I beliefe :)
    by the way,how can you take screenshot when you got bluescreen?

  7. VJ May 16, 2008 7:28 pm

    @ Vikram : My pleasure buddy. This way you can get to solution very easily, and the same happened in your case :)

    @ Syahid : That was a nice one, but restarting doesn’t rectify the issue.

    @ Jennifer : Cant really say that, As even Microsoft says so.

    @ Nirmal : Thanks for Stumble Nirmal

    @ Murtuza : Thank you Murtaza, i will look into this issue as well you are facing.

    @ Hendrawan : Well, thats when Digi cams come handy ;)

  8. Amey Palyekar May 28, 2008 2:00 am

    it is so called BSOD because it is death for both Windows and User who might be doing some critical work…

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