A blue screen of death as seen in Windows XP and Vista.

A Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD or blue screen) is an error screen displayed by certain operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down to prevent damage. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... Windows redirects here. ...

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Bluescreens can be caused by physical faults such as faulty memory, mains power supply voltage variance or spikes in conjunction with or magnified by power supply unit voltage rating not matching the mains supply. For example a 220V PSU attached to a 240V mains outlet, the power requirements of the computer exceeding the capacity of the PSU, overheating of components, intermittent power to hard disk drives or other parts, faulty hardware, or hardware running beyond its specification limits. Bluescreens have been present in all Windows-based operating systems since Windows 3.1; OS/2 and MS-DOS suffered the Black Screen of Death, and early builds of Windows Vista displayed the Red Screen of Death after a boot loader error. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Windows logo used since November 2006. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... A Windows 3. ... Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Blue Screen of Death. ... In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...

The term "Blue Screen of Death" originated during OS/2 pre-release development activities at Lattice Inc, the makers of an early Windows and OS/2 C compiler. During porting of Lattice's other tools, developers encountered the stop screen when NULL pointers were dereferenced either in application code or when unexpectedly passed into system API calls. During reviews of progress and feedback to IBM Austin, the developers described the stop screen as the Blue Screen of Death to denote the screen and the finality of the experience. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Lattice C (according to its author, Lattice, Incorporated) was the first C compiler for MS-DOS on the IBM PC, in 1982. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ...

Types of BSoDs

Windows NT

A blue screen of death as seen on an Advertising screen in a Chadstone Shopping Centre

In Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista, the blue screen of death occurs when the kernel or a driver running in kernel mode encounters an error from which it cannot recover. This is usually caused by an illegal operation being performed. The only safe action the operating system can take in this situation is to restart the computer. As a result, data may be lost, as users are not given an opportunity to save data that has not yet been saved to the hard drive. Chadstone Shopping Centre (also known as Chaddy to local residents) is a shopping centre located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. ... Windows NT (New Technology) is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. ... Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K) is a preemptive, interruptible, graphical and business-oriented operating system designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor computers. ... Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ... Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft. ... Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ... A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ... In processors with memory protection, kernel mode (as opposed to user mode) is the mode in which the operating system kernel runs. ...

Blue screens are known as "Stop errors" in the Windows Resource Kit documentation. They are referred to as "bug checks" in the Windows Software development kit and Driver development kit documentation. 1. ... When the Windows operating system reaches a condition where it cannot operate safely it is halted the moment the problem occurs. ... A software development kit (SDK or devkit) is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar. ... A software development kit (SDK) is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system or similar. ...

The text on the error screen contains the code of the error as well as its symbolic name (e.g. "0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED") along with four error-dependent values in parentheses that are there to help software engineers fix the problem that occurred. Depending on the error code, it may display the address where the problem occurred, along with the driver which is loaded at that address. Under Windows NT and 2000, the second and third sections of the screen may contain information on all loaded drivers and a stack dump, respectively. The driver information is in three columns; the first lists the base address of the driver, the second lists the driver's creation date (as a Unix timestamp), and the third lists the name of the driver.^[1] Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time. ...

By default, Windows will create a memory dump file when a blue screen error occurs. Depending on the OS version, there may be several formats this can be saved in, ranging from a 64 KB "mini dump" to a "complete dump" which is effectively a copy of the entire contents of physical RAM. The resulting memory dump file may be debugged later, using a kernel debugger. A debugger is necessary to obtain a stack trace, and may be required to ascertain the true cause of the problem; as the information onscreen is limited and thus possibly misleading, it may hide the true source of the error. A core dump is an unstructured record of the contents of working memory at a specific time, generally used to debug a program that has terminated abnormally (crashed). ... Look up RAM, Ram, ram in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A debugger is a computer program that is used to test and debug other programs. ... In computer science, a call stack is a special stack which stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program. ...

Microsoft Windows can also be configured to send live debugging information to a kernel debugger running on a separate computer. (Windows XP also allows for kernel debugging from the machine that is running the OS.) If a blue screen error is encountered while a live kernel debugger is attached to the system, Windows will halt execution and cause the debugger to "break in", rather than displaying the BSOD. The debugger can then be used to examine the contents of memory and determine the source of the problem. This article is about the machine. ...

The Windows debugger is available as a free download from Microsoft.^[2]

Windows includes a feature that can be used to cause a blue screen manually. To enable it, the user must add a value to the Windows registry. After that, a BSOD will appear when the user presses the SCROLL LOCK key twice while holding the right CTRL key.^[3] This feature is primarily useful for obtaining a memory dump of the computer while it is in a given state. As such, it is generally used to aid in troubleshooting system hangs. The Windows registry is a directory which stores settings and options for the operating system for Microsoft Windows 32-bit versions, 64-bit versions and Windows Mobile. ...

A Bluescreen can also be caused by terminating either csrss.exe or winlogon.exe. This cannot be done with Windows Task Manager, but can be done with a third-party software. One of these programs may also terminate if it fails.

By default, Windows XP is configured to save only a 64K minidump when it encounters a blue screen, and to then automatically reboot the computer. Because this process happens very quickly, the blue screen may be seen only for an instant or not at all. Users have sometimes noted this as a random reboot rather than a traditional stop error, and are only aware of an issue after Windows reboots and displays a notification that it has recovered from a serious error. This happens only when the computer has a function called "Auto Restart" enabled, which can be disabled in the Control Panel which in turn, shows the BSoDs. In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...

A BSoD can also be caused by a critical boot loader error, where the operating system is unable to access the boot partition due to incorrect storage drivers or similar problems. The error code in this situation is STOP 0x0000007B (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE). In such cases, there is no memory dump saved. Since the system is unable to boot from the hard drive in this situation, correction of the problem often requires booting from the Microsoft Windows CD. After booting to the CD, it may be possible to correct the problem by performing a repair install or by using the Recovery Console (with CHKDSK). The Windows 2000 Recovery Console selection, login, and command prompts. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

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ReactOS

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ReactOS

ReactOS, an attempt at creating a free software/open source implementation of a Windows NT-compatible operating system, also features its own BSOD similar to the Windows NT/XP one. ReactOS is a project to develop an operating system that is binary-compatible with application software and device drivers for Microsoft Windows NT version 5. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ...

Windows 9x

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Windows 9x/Me

The blue screen of death frequently occurs in Microsoft's home desktop operating systems Windows 95, 98, and Me. Here it is usually less serious, but much more common. In these operating systems, the BSOD is the main way for virtual device drivers to report errors to the user. It is internally referred to by the name of "_VWIN32_FaultPopup". A Windows 9x/Me BSOD gives the user the option either to restart or continue. However, VxDs do not display BSODs frivolously — they usually indicate a problem that cannot be fixed without restarting the computer, and hence after a BSOD is displayed the system is usually unstable or unresponsive. Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. ... Windows 98 (codenamed Memphis) is a graphical operating system released on June 25, 1998 by Microsoft and the successor to Windows 95. ... Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me (IPA pronunciation: [miː], [É›m iː]), is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft. ... In Microsoft computing, a VxD is a virtual device driver. ...

Two of the most common reasons for BSODs are:

• Problems that occur with incompatible versions of DLLs. This cause is sometimes referred to as DLL hell. Windows loads these DLLs into memory when they are needed by application programs; if versions are changed, the next time an application loads the DLL it may be different from what the application expects. These incompatibilities increase over time as more new software is installed, and is one of the main reasons why a freshly-installed copy of Windows is more stable than an "old" one.
• Faulty or poorly written device drivers, hardware incompatibilities, or damaged hardware may also cause a BSOD.

In Windows 95 and 98, a BSOD occurs when the system attempts to access the file "c:concon" on the hard drive. This was often inserted on websites to crash users' machines. Microsoft has released a patch for this.^[4] In computer science, a library is a collection of subprograms used to develop software. ... DLL hell is a colorful term given to any problem based on a difficulty in managing Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) installed on a particular copy of an operating system. ...

The BSOD can appear if a user ejects removable media while it is being read on 9x/ME. This is particularly common while using Microsoft Office: if a user simply wants to view a document, he might eject a floppy disk before exiting the program. Since Microsoft Office always creates a temporary file in the same directory, it will trigger a BSOD upon exiting because it will attempt to delete the file on the disk that is no longer in the drive. Removable media refers to cartridge and disc-based storage devices which can be used to easily move data between computers with the right readers. ... Microsoft Office is an office suite from Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. ...

This type of blue screen is no longer seen in Windows NT, 2000, and XP. In the case of these less serious software errors, the program may still crash, but it will not take down the entire operating system with it due to better memory management and decreased legacy support. In these systems, the "true" BSOD is seen only in cases where the entire operating system crashes. Memory management is the act of managing computer memory. ... In the field of computing, legacy support is an automated approach to dealing with legacy systems. ...

Perhaps the most famous instance of a Windows 9x BSOD occurred during a presentation of a Windows 98 beta by Bill Gates at COMDEX on April 20, 1998. The demo PC crashed with a BSOD when his assistant (Chris Capossela, who is still working for Microsoft as Corporate VP in the Information Working business unit) connected a scanner to the PC, trying to demonstrate Windows 98's support for Plug and Play devices. This event brought thunderous applause from the crowd and Gates replied after a nervous pause: "That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet."^[5] For other persons named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). ... COMDEX (Computer Dealers Exhibition) was a computer expo held in Las Vegas, Nevada, each November from 1979 to 2003. ... is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... For the specific branded ISA add-on technology marketed by Intel and Microsoft, see Plug-And-Play. ...

Windows CE 5.0

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Windows CE

The simplest version of the blue screen occurs in Windows CE except the versions for Pocket PC. The blue screen in Windows CE 3.0 is similar to the one in Windows 95 and 98. Windows CE (sometimes abbreviated WinCE) is a variation of Microsofts Windows operating system for minimalistic computers and embedded systems. ... An O2 Pocket PC phone A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware specification for a handheld-sized computer (Personal digital assistant) that runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. ...

Windows for Workgroups 3.11

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Windows 3.1

Windows 3.1 was the first version of Windows to use the Blue Screen of Death. In Windows 3.1's 386 enhanced mode, the Blue Screen is also displayed when Control-Alt-Delete is pressed. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about Control-Alt-Delete, the keyboard shortcut. ...

Xbox

Although the Microsoft Xbox usually shows a Green Screen of Death when a critical error occurs, this model was seen showing a BSOD during the presentation of Forza Motorsport at the CeBIT computer fair in Hannover in March 2005. Additionally the recalled Game Kakuto Chojin displays a BSOD as an error message when the disc is dirty.^{[citation needed]} The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... TiVos Green Screen of Death The Green Screen of Death (GSoD) is a error message produced by TiVo machines. ... Forza Motorsport is a racing simulator video game developed by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox gaming system. ... A crowded exhibition hall during CeBIT 2000. ... Map of Germany showing Hanover Hanover (in German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the river Leine, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

An early development version of the Microsoft XBox showing a Blue Screen of Death during a presentation of a racing game at the CeBIT in March 2005.

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Some users, upgrading from Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and having installed Application Enhancer, experienced a similar experience to a blue screen of death: on booting, the screen remained blue for an indefinite period of time because Application Enhancer's framework was not compatible with the new handlers that Leopard included. However, Apple became aware of the problem and posted a solution^[6]. Nevertheless, Leopard's blue screen was not meant to inform and/or describe an error as the blue screen is just a consequence of the regular boot process.
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PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable shows a Blue Screen of Death when the internal settings in flash1: become corrupted or are missing. The BSoD instructs that the Playstation Portable will attempt to recreate the registry setting files. The BSoD is encountered often when downgrading a Playstation Portable because of non-backward-compatible registry files. Under very rare conditions (usually as a result of firmware modifications), the system may be thrown into a loop in which the PSP will continue to restart and display the BsoD screen. The PlayStation Portable , officially abbreviated as PSP) is a handheld game console released and currently manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment. ... The PlayStation Portable , officially abbreviated as PSP) is a handheld game console released and currently manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment. ... The PlayStation Portable , officially abbreviated as PSP) is a handheld game console released and currently manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment. ...

Nintendo DS

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Display

By default, the display is white (EGA color 0x0F; HTML color #FFFFFF) lettering on a blue (EGA color 0x01; HTML color #0000AA) background, with information about current memory values and register values. For visually impaired users, Microsoft has added a utility that allows the user to change a setting in SYSTEM.INI that controls the colors that the BSOD code uses to any of the 16 EGA colors. Doing so requires the edit or addition of the "MessageBackColor=X" and "MessageTextColor=X" lines to the [386enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI, where X is a hexadecimal number from 0 to F corresponding with a color in the EGA 16-color pallette. The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is the IBM PC computer display standard specification located between CGA and VGA in terms of graphics performance (that is, colour and space resolution). ... HTML, an initialism of Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. ... SYSTEM.INI was a basic INI file used in early versions of Microsoft Windows to load device drivers and the default Windows shell (Program Manager or Windows Explorer). ...

Windows 95, 98 and Me use 80x25 text mode. The Windows NT BSOD uses 80x50 text mode. The screen resolution is 720x400. The XP BSOD uses the Lucida Console font while the Vista BSOD uses the Consolas font. Lucida is a family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. ... Consolas is a monospaced font. ...

Details of the Blue Screen of Death

Each BSOD usually displays a message such as FILE_SYSTEM as well as a number like 0x00000022. The usual parameters displayed for the BSOD are the following:

number of error (parameter, parameter, parameter, parameter) name of error

All of the above information is important in understanding and determining the cause of the BSOD.^[8]

Depending on the value "number of error", all, some or even none of the parameters contain data pertaining to what went wrong, and/or where it happened.

"Famous" BSoDs, Easter Eggs and others in Popular Media

There have been occurrences of BSoD screens in public view that have garnered attention and become a sort of cultural phenomenon. Some of the more famous unintentional BSoDs include:

• The Paris Hotel marquee on the Las Vegas Strip ^[9]
• During the Windows 98 preview at the 1998 COMDEX, Microsoft presenters were faced with the BSoD ^[10]
• In Toronto, the "Bay" department store displayed four massive BSoD images for multiple days ^[11]

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• The Mac OS X Leopard uses icons showing monitor with a BSOD to represent Windows network computers. ^{[12] [13]}
• In reference to Windows, several computer monitors in the game series Halo for the Xbox display custom variants of the Blue Screen of Death. Most prominent is the display at the gate on the Zanzibar map in Halo 2.
• Halo 3 for the Xbox 360 also had a BSoD easter egg ^[14]
• In Apple's Leopard OS X 10.5, the Finder displays a beige CRT monitor with a Windows 95-like BSoD on it as an icon to represent an SMB share on a network.^[15]

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See also

• Spinning wait cursor — A cursor in Mac OS X that commonly means an application is busy. Often referred to as the spinning beach ball of death, pinwheel of death, spinning wheel of doom, or Rainbow wheel of death, it is a reference to the blue screen of death.
• Kernel panic — A critical failure under UNIX and Unix-like operating systems.
• Guru Meditation — Another type of error messages for Amiga operating systems.
• Red Ring of Death — A red warning light/symbol on the Xbox 360 that means an inoperative unit

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References

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External links

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• Bug Check Codes (Microsoft Developer Network)
• BSOD Discussion forum.
• Official Microsoft BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2
• I love Blue screen of death
• Bill Gates gets the BSOD at the unveiling of Windows 98
• MVP Mark Salloway's Windows XP Resource Center - Introduction to Stop Errors
• Original report of RSoD from a Microsoft employee
• BSOD upgrades to RSOD in Longhorn from Joi Ito
• A BSOD emulator for UNIX (Posix) platforms
• "Haiku Error Messages", from 1998 Salon.com article
• "PC Stats Beginners Guide: Troubleshoot BSOD

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