What is a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)?
A Blue Screen Screen of Death typically occurs on Microsoft’s Business Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, and Windows 2003. Technically, Windows 95, 98, and Me can get a similar “blue” screen when an error is encountered, but this is not usually referred to as a blue screen of death. The Blue Screen of Death is when the Operating System encounters a fatal error in it’s processing. You could classify blue screen causes into three categories: bugs in software, corruption in memory or on the hard drive, or faulty hardware. Due to the last 2 causes, you can see why it is simply not possible to get rid of all blue screens. There are over 100 different types of blue screens. Each one reports a different type of error that helps support personnel decipher what happened. Many times, a blue screen will result from a bug in a driver from a 3rd party vendor. However, sometimes they do occur from bugs in the Operating System. If you get a blue screen, you can search in Ne
