blue screen?

sebastianj

Anyone with any experience of Blue Screen on window pc? It is playing up and keeps checking the system, any ideas what can cause it?
Sebastian

Lorian

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Roland_Sausage

sebastianj wrote: »

Anyone with any experience of Blue Screen on window pc? It is playing up and keeps checking the system, any ideas what can cause it?
Sebastian

I think anyone who has ever used a Windows PC has experience of it

It will usually happen due to a software problem, hardware problem or just as a random occurence.

pendragon_arther

Also if you can get to safemode, go to device manager and see if there's any yellows and if so that's the problem.

LHW99

and if the whole thing is unresponsive - ctrl+alt+del should bring up task manager for a restart, or if that doesn't work, pressing that combination twice in fairly quick succession should cause a restart anyway.

Cycrow

Roland_Sausage wrote: »

I think anyone who has ever used a Windows PC has experience of it

It will usually happen due to a software problem, hardware problem or just as a random occurence.

Not really, maybe in Windows 95. But in any modern windows, a blue screen will always have a reason and that reason will be hardware/driver related. The reason may not be obvious or easy to find however.

Normal software cant cause a blue screen error by themselves

HappyMJ

You need the words that appear on the blue screen error. I just recently upgraded to Windows 10 and was constantly getting blue screen's but the error were referring to video problems. It turns out the driver I had was not compatible and caused the blue screens.

J_B

HappyMJ wrote: »

You need the words that appear on the blue screen error.

Indeed - but they only stay on screen for a few seconds.

If it happens all the time - simple, take a photo and google the answer for the error code

It it only happens occasionally ..... hmmm .... read quickly!!!

Cycrow

J_B wrote: »

Indeed - but they only stay on screen for a few seconds.

If you can get into windows (or safe mode) you can disable the option to reboot on error, This will keep the blue screen up until you manually reboot allowing you to read it.

Not sure why they set to the default to reboot

London_Ash

pendragon_arther wrote: »

Also if you can get to safemode, go to device manager and see if there's any yellows and if so that's the problem.

This isn't particularly true, this just means the system is struggling to find the correct drivers that are associated with that piece of hardware.

A blue screen error usually occurs when hardware is struggling to interact with your system properly. This could be overheating of a graphics card, but also could be when you try to edit a HD video in video editing software, but don't have a powerful graphics card installed in the machine.

To be able to determine what caused your Blue screen error (more commonly known as the BSOD or Blue Screen of Death), we'd need to know what you were doing at the time it occurred.

Nicklt

Don't use the Nirsoft Blue Screen view as posted above by someone.

It's useless and gives more incorrect readout that it does correct.

If you are using windows 7 then head to SevenForums and follow their procedur for posting the dump files so they can take a look for you and tell you the issue.

It is most likely a driver or hardware issue.