Questions tagged [bsod]
Blue Screen of Death; a Windows fatal system error, e.g. "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down" or "Your PC ran into a problem". Mention the specific error code and all information on the screen in your question.
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Convincingly "breaking" a system for a non technical user
For various reasons out of scope for Super User, I've been tasked with temporarily disabling one of my own systems. I have full admin control and own this system. It’s running Windows 7 SP1. I want to ...
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Where can I find last "blue screen" error message after reboot in Windows 10?
Just saw a "blue screen" in Windows 10. I wanted to google the error message but the moment I reached the phone to take a photo - computer rebooted.
Can I find this error message somewhere in the ...
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How to make Windows 10 BSOD show more details like older versions of Windows
I would like to know if there's any way to make Windows 10 show more details when crashing like Windows 7 did. In Windows 10, the Blue Screen of Death:
hides the parameters of the kernel panic:
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Running VirtualBox machine causes Blue Screen of Death on host Windows 7 PC
VirtualBox has now twice caused a BSOD on my host operating system Windows 7. The first time I was running VirtualPC so thought the two Virtual Systems together might have caused the issue, but this ...
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What exactly is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL?
What exactly is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL? What is IRQL? What things use IRQL? Why does it need to be less or equal? What would cause it to not be less or equal? Why can't the OS recover from it not ...
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How to get more info out of the uninformative Windows 8 BSOD?
Windows 8's Blue Screen of Death is different from the previous Windows versions' one:
In order to find out what caused the problem you need to write down or remember the search term it presents you ...
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Is there an application to log component temperatures to file?
I purchased a computer a month or two ago (core i7, 24gb ram, geforce gtx 590, windows 7 ultimate). Within the last week it began to bluescreen regularly. I tried lots of things (check hds, check ...
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How to diagnose Blue Screens in Windows 7 (64bit)
Using programs like WhoCrashed and BlueScreenView you can see the BSOD and the errors but how do you tell exactly what's causing the BSOD?
I'm not sure if it's because of bad hardware, bad driver ...
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Fastest way to reproduce a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)?
As part of a multi-operating system challenge (testing computer integrity), I need to find the fastest way to reproduce a genuine Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on a Windows machine. Any version that is ...
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Why does Windows still have the BSOD on Ctrl+Scroll+Scroll "feature"?
Background information
While Windows XP came out I heard about a testing feature that existed to manually cause a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I also heard this was supposed to be removed in XP ...
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Can prematurely powering down a computer cause bad sectors in a hard drive?
Q1: Can forcibly powering off a PC without using the built-in shutdown/reboot functions, cause a HDD to accumulate bad sectors? Whether it be the result of BSODs, lockups, crashes, etc.
Q2: If so, ...
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How to cause a BSOD on Windows XP and newer versions?
Is there a way to programmatically cause a BSOD on Windows XP and newer versions? How?
BTW just to clarify, this is not for malicious purposes. The client requested to be able to shut down/reboot a ...
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Where are Blue Screen of Death events logged on Windows XP and how can I view the history of them?
I got a Blue Screen Of Death on reboot.
Where are events like this logged on Windows XP and how can I view the history of the BSODs?
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PC Blue Screens and then instantly reboots. How do I stop this or find the error later?
I've started getting random blue screens from my (admittedly aged PC). Unfortunately it reboots straight away so I don't get chance to read the error. It's been happening when browsing Stack Overflow ...
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How to remove Crash Dump Files under Windows 7
My Windows 7 hard drive suddenly filled up today. After doing some research, I downloaded and ran WinDirStat. This identified that 29% of my hard drive was occupied by Crash Dump Files (*.mdmp). I ...
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Can a processor upgrade cause BSOD?
I Had the following hardware setup:
Phenom II X4 945
Asus M4A97
4GB DDR2 OCZ
Radeon HD5850
OCZ Agility 2 120 GB
Windows 7 x64 Pro Fully updated (latest drivers and windows update patches)
Then I ...
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Windows suddenly won't boot, "CRITICAL_SERVICE_FAILED"
Today I had some trouble printing, so I rebooted my PC. However, I was very surprised to find that Windows 10 wouldn't start. After clicking "Restart" it would take me to a blue screen, &...
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Video card killed my computer
I was in the middle of playing Insurgency, and I had just tried to switch servers when the entire game froze. No biggie, I thought. I'll just restart the game and go on my merry way. Of course, this ...
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Computer suddenly dies; screen displays weird flickering lines, then restarts
I've been having this terrible problem for a little while and just managed to get a picture of 'dead screen' for the first time and I am posting it to seek help.
Randomly, at irregular intervals (...
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Windows 8 CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED
I've been getting blue screens for several days now, only new thing I did was install a hard drive.
I'll be doing anything, browsing the web, etc. and I get a blue screen, that says ...
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How to install RAID drivers on already installed Windows 7?
64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate
6GB RAM
Intel i7 920
Intel X25-M SSD 80GB 2,5"
Club 3D Radeon HD5750
GA-EX58-UD4P Motherboard
I've been running fine with Windows 7 installed on the SSD. I wanted to ...
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Is there any solution to Process1_Initialization_Failed on Windows 7?
I have a BSOD problem that I cannot repair. I would be so grateful if someone could provide a solution. I have Windows 7 OS installed on the computer.
The stop error message resembles the following:
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BSOD: process1_initialization_failed
OS: Win7 Pro SP1 x86
Laptop: Dell Latitude E6410
Unable to boot into Windows and Safe Mode - both return the same blue screen. Most online resources explain that the bootcat.cache (in %windir%\...
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Do errors in Memtest86+ definitively mean something is wrong with my RAM?
I recently built a new computer for somebody. Everything seemed fine at first, but when I went to install the OS (tried both Windows XP and Windows 7), both installers would fail. XP failed with a ...
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How to convert full crash dump to mini dump
I have a Windows 7 BSOD crash dump of almost 900 mb, and I would like to produce a mini dump from it. Is there a tool for that?
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VirtualBox causes host BSOD starting VM under Windows 10. Hyper-V is off
I have a freshly-installed 64-bit Windows 10 system, with VirtualBox installed and a CentOS 7.0 VM image. Whenever I try to start the VM, Windows BSODs with SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, code 0x0000003b.
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Tracking down random BSOD on windows 7
I have gotten a computer running windows 7 handed to me that randomly, several times a day, bsods with a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50) or WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (124). Crashes happens regardless ...
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Getting process command line arguments from minidump
I am investigating a BSOD and I'd like to know more about the process that caused the problem. I can open the minidump in WinDbg which gives a lot of information about the crash. However the one piece ...
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Computer Shuts Down, BSOD, Aggravation
---BOUNTY & EDIT---
Ok, here is the latest update, and attached a bounty! So I ran all of my ram sticks 1 at a time for around 24 hours each. None of them caused a BSOD. I ran test on all of ...
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Windows 7 Recurring Blue Screens: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 0x1A
I have recurring BSODs that really have me scratching my head. Here's a look at the errors:
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 0x1A (ntoskrnl.exe) - I've seen this 9 times since April 2012
NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM 0x24 (...
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How to find the source of this BSOD? How to fix it?
I occasionally (always at the least convenient moment...) receive this BSOD on my Windows 7 desktop PC:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
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How to screenshot a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) [duplicate]
I am using windows 7. Recently my computer crashed, and displayed the dreaded BSOD:
I was trying to copy down the error message, but I didn't have enough time. Is it possible to take a screenshot of ...
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I get a red bar when trying to install windows 7 DVD, and it freezes
I get a red bar when trying to install windows 7 DVD, and it freezes.
I read here https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/aee2b86b-ab1d-409a-b8ca-e0f6a4c90b3c/windows-7-pro-...
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“DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE” on Windows 10
I've been prompted with BSoD, at seemingly random times, with the above error. This is off a fresh install of Windows 10 (2 times in fact) on a new hard drive. This is my model: https://docs.sony.com/...
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How to Disable Driver Verifier on Windows 10?
I am trying to disable the Windows 10 driver signature verifier.
This is causing constant BSOD errors - all showing "Driver Verifier IOManger Violation"
I am trying to install an old video driver. ...
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How can I troubleshoot a "Hardware Malfunction" blue screen?
Update 3/10/2011 (2): Switching harddrive slots once again allows Windows to load, but crashes are much more frequent than they were previously. It's clear that the issue has to do with the hard drive ...
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What is DPC Watchdog?
OK, so DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION is a common Error code after a BSOD. I'd like to know -
What is a DPC Watchdog? I mean, what is meant by that?
What does it do in the Windows system? And how does it ...
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Any advice on what to do when getting a cryptic blue screen in windows?
What are some steps that you usually take? Are there any good ways of finding out what they mean etc.?
For example I have gotten these ones where it pretty much only says "IRQ less or equal to" (or ...
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Capturing Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) screen [duplicate]
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PC Blue Screens and then instantly reboots. How do I stop this or find the error later?
Sometimes I get a BSOD screen for a split second and I have no chance to see the cause ...
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Windows 8.1 RTM BSOD with fault "Critical Structure Corruption"
I recently upgraded from Windows 8 Enterprise x64 (US English) to Windows 8.1 Pro x64 (RTM, US English) on my lab workstation. It worked mostly fine for the last few days (since the upgrade), but this ...
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BSOD continuing after wiping hard drive and starting clean Windows 7 installation
I have had incessant BSODs with my Acer Aspire x1700, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.4, initially running Win 7 x64.
I have 8GB of RAM and I ran MEMTEST (8 passes) with no errors.
I have replaced my ...
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Add/Change Drive Letter Causes BSOD
Recently Microsoft Support had me "upgrade" or rather replace the installation of Windows because I had an SFC error that could not be resolved any other way, apparently.
SFC now runs without ...
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Troubleshooting an mysteriously unstable machine
I have a machine with a Core i7 CPU, 12 GiB of memory, 4 hard drives and a graphics card/sound card (both add-in PCI-E). This machine is somehow unstable, and I'm wondering how to troubleshoot ...
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Blue screen (BSOD) when Windows 7 hibernates or standby
Whenever I want to standby or hibernate Windows 7, It takes some times in blank monitor and gives a blue screen error and shuts down. Details below about Error message that Windows showed:
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Window 7 Bad Driver BSOD, How Can I find out which driver it is?
So I have probably looked at every resource I can on Google - I have spent the last 15 hours looking and testing.
I am experiencing a BSOD loop. After investigating further it would seem it is a Bad ...
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Windows BSOD - memory problems
A Windows Vista PC would regularly produce blue screens of death. A memory test proved that the memory was the cause.
The PC had a motherboard several years old, and memory to fit that mother ...
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Bluescreen Stop 0x00000027 RDR_FILE_SYSTEM after cloning system on new HDD
A couple of months ago I got a new 500GB HDD for my no-name-brand Laptop PC and I cloned the complete Win 7 Pro 32bit system with clonezilla from the old 70GB drive to the new one. At first everything ...
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Windows 7 likes to crash on me about every week
I have Windows 7 Pro 64-bit edition and it seems like every week I get a blue screen since it crashed for some reason.
I have no clue what is causing this.
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How to fix MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY BSOD on Windows 10
So after 3 years of using a fresh install of Windows 7 x64, I've to upgrade to Windows 10 because of job reasons.
I downloaded the latest Windows 10 Pro build image (1803) from Microsoft and used ...
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How to fix UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME (0x000000ED) on my Windows XP Dell laptop?
I have a Dell Latitude D410. Running Windows XP. I am receiving the STOP: 0x000000ED (0X899CF030,0XC0000185,0X00000000,0X00000000) blue screen.
Initially, I tried everything specified with the ...
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