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 memory, reinstall windows etc..) but it still bluescreened. At the time my temps were as follows… CPU – aprox … Read more
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 XP or later will work. As Shinrai puts it: So basically you’re trying to BSOD a machine as fast as humanly … Read more
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 software or OS corruption. The computer seems to crash randomly at different points sometimes when being used, sometimes under load … Read more
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 being less or equal? Does IRQL only affect Windows? This error seems to be pretty common. I’m … Read more
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 with. The two search terms I have seen suggested so far are SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED. While it’s nice not … Read more
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: The MSDN article Blue Screen Data explains how to attach a debugger in the section titled “Reading Bug … Read more
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 time it was just VirtualBox. I didn’t get the error code. Has anyone had similar problems? Answer What is the … Read more
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 logs? Answer Yes, it’s recorded in the Event Log. I quote the bsod tag wiki: If you … Read more
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 do this right—something believable, deniable and artistic. I took a look at these, but most of them aren’t … Read more
