What is the blue screen of death?

Question

I heard a lot of thing's on how if the computer is really messed up, you get the blue screen of death, and I was wondering what can cause this?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen...

Answer 2

A blue screen of death, or BSoD, is an error that the computer can't recover from and is usually associated with Microsoft Windows.  The term Blue Screen of Death refers to the fact that the screen the error is displayed on is blue and the computer needs to be restarted (hence, death).

Note that on operating systems other than Windows (like Linux and Mac OSX) this is known as a "Kernel Panic"

Mac OSX Kernel Panic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacOS...

Linux Kernel Panic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kerne...

Kernel Panic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Pani...

Answer 3

Could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software. This  problem can be solved by uninstalling new softwares, updating device drivers and making minor configuration changes . From http://fixit.in/bluescreenofdeath.html . You can also run a free registry scan using utilities from http://re7.info

Answer 4

A Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD, bluescreen, or Blue Screen of Doom) is an error screen frequently 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.