What is the blue screen of Death?

Answer 1

The Blue Screen of Death (sometimes only called "bluescreen", "stop error", or just abbreviated as "BSOD") is the popular name for the screen displayed by Microsoft's Windows operating system when it encounters a system error (the Microsoft term is Stop error). There are two Windows error screens that are both referred to as the blue screen of death, with one (Windows NT 4/2000/XP/Vista) being significantly more serious than the other (Windows 9x). There are several causes of the blue screen popping up. It can be a poorly-written device driver, bad memory, damaged registry or usage of incompatible versions of DLLs (see more on the "Types of blue screens" section). Physical memory dumps may occur. The blue screen of death in one form or another has been present in all Windows operating systems since Windows version 3.1. It is the successor of the less well-known black screen of death that occurs in OS/2 as well as MS-DOS[1]. In early builds of Windows Vista it was complemented with a red screen of death, used for boot loader errors.

Answer 2

It's an error message that Windows (mostly 95 and 98, but you can get one in XP sometimes) will display when certain extremely bad things happen: the screen switches into a text-only mode, with white characters on a blue background, and some cryptic message in the center that often starts with "A fatal exception 0E has occurred..."

Sometimes it's just a program crashing, other times it means the entire operating system has died.

Answer 3

I don't know about it being there in original Nintendo, but it would be right BSoD is not limited to Windows, the nickname of blue screen of death came about that a computer system often use a blue background to signal some fatal error.

Answer 4

The blue screen of death is a popular name for the screen displayed by a Microsoft Windows operating system when it encounters a system error.

You can find out more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death

Hope that helps!

Answer 5

IT IS A ACTIVE X PROGRAM THAT Microsoft DEVELOPED IN THERE R&D LABS. whenever bill gates needs some more of your hard earned money they activate it and radom computers around the world start crashing . then the next day the newer OS's sales will go up because you believe his marketing hype try UBUNTU if you are tired of giving your hard earned cash away.
hope this helps you wake up to reality
have a nice day

Answer 6

it also refers to the original nintendo system when it would screw up, and show a flashing blue screen. many people from the late 80's early 90's know it well! im surprised no one mentioned it yet, are all you guys really that young??

Answer 7

Any Chance of Explaining ?

Need more Info Even to Guess.

Some Symptoms or Leading up to this event would be nice / helpful.

Answer 8

when it happens, u wont be able to save ur data, or do anything else....usually after u do a restart, it will work but at times, it doesnt... and this means motherboard , hdd or someother hardware failure.