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 (typically once a week), while working on something (it’s been different things every time) my computer will just suddenly … Read more
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 didn’t work out. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del a few times, but I couldn’t get the Task Manager … Read more
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, “CRITICAL SERVICE FAILED”. I’ve tried the automatic repair option, but it failed. Looking at the log file at C:\Windows\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt, it says … Read more
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 bought an used Phenom II X6 1090T and installed it without formatting. Since that my computer started BSODing almost … Read more
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 have had frequent blue screens on the system since I updated to Windows 7. In any case, how can I remove … Read more
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 in Google Chrome and Firefox so I’m assuming that it’s something fairly fundamental. Most of the time it puts up the “Report the … Read more
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? Answer Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : user39966 , Answer Author : Alistair
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 terminal on their LAN this way. When I asked why, they said because it’s faster than a normal reboot… … Read more
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, are these bad sectors repairable? I know an OS typically relocate bad sectors to other areas of the drive, but once a … Read more
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 Service Pack 2. It didn’t get removed. It’s also in Vista, Windows 7, and all later Windows versions. To enable … Read more
