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bluescreen of death (BSOD)

Bluescreen of Death (BSOD) is an informal term for a bluescreen caused by a crash of the operating system. Bluescreen of Death is triggered by the operating system and shows a completely blue screen with error information displayed in white letters.

Bluescreen with Abnormal End crash message (evening)

Bluescreen with Abnormal End crash message (evening)

In addition, the text overlay can include hexadecimal characters that can be used to determine errors.

BDOD displays occur when a sudden error or General Protection Fault( GPF) occurs that causes the operating system to abnormally terminate or crash. The system is then inactive and can only be restarted by rebooting.

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Englisch: bluescreen of death - BSOD
Updated at: 07.07.2018
#Words: 98
Links: bluescreen, crash, operating system (OS), blue (B), error
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