How To Fix The Blue Screen Of Death – The Ultimate Error Message

The notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is the stop screen messaged that alerts you that something is terribly wrong with your Windows. You have just been visited by the ghost of the most dreaded Windows error message. Fortunately, you don’t have to put up with a frozen computer and the error message. There are plenty of things you can do resolve this problem. This article serves as a beginner’s guide on how to fix the Blue Screen of Death.

The initial thing you want to do is decode the error message. The windows stop message may seem to contain unintelligible message at first but with a closer look, you will find that not only the text-format message contains actual, readable message but the upper and lower sections give you clues as well about what caused the error message to appear and how to best solve it.

If you’ll look closely, you will find that there are four parts to BSOD – the error name, the troubleshooting help, the error information and somewhere in between these are details about the modules that have already been loaded and those that were about to be loaded had the error message not occurred.

On most occasions, the first section is enough to deal with the problem . There are several types of errors, the most commonly encountered ones are briefly discussed below:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAl, which stems from a buggy device driver or hardware. KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, which comes from an incorrectly installed device. REGISTRY_ERROR, which basically roots from errors in the registry. DIVIDE_BY_ZERO_ERROR (this roots from an application that is trying to divide by zero). INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, which pertains to the computer’s difficulty to access its hard disk or the data on its hard disk. NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM, which pertains to a corrupted hard disk. NMI_HARDWARE_FAILURE (which is the computer’s way of saying, ‘it doesn’t know what caused the problem, but it’s hardware-based’).

Other errors pertain to the failure of the OS, kernel data errors, device driver errors and errors in the computer’s BIOS.

Determining the error is the first objective, once you’ve done this you will be able to address the problems. The solutions are actually presented by the Blue Screen of Death, only you have to analyze it. Depending on the OS version you are using, you may either receive generic instructions or no instruction at all. Either way, you will find very little use for the instructions provided to you. On most occasions, rebooting the computer is applicable.

Shut down your PC and restart it, usually this temporarily solves the problem on how to fix the Blue Screen of Death. If it doesn’t, check the status of the various hardware and software your computer is running. If you have installed a new hardware or software, or a new device driver, check that the installation process was followed properly. Sometimes, the hardware, software or the device driver has factory defects which permit it from functioning properly. Reconfiguring or reinstalling the product will fix your problem on BSOD. Or better yet, uninstall the software or hardware entirely and reinstall it.