Blue Screens of Death Explained
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·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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unpleasant surprises you can encounter while computing few are more jarring
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and the sudden blue screen of death and
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let's not kid ourselves that cute little
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frowny face they added in Windows 8 really doesn't help what's almost as
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frustrating is losing your work though is the fact that you get hardly any
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information about why your computer suddenly decided to stop working like
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Dennis on a Friday afternoon all you get is some mysterious error code thankfully
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Techquickie is here to save the day with a list of some of the most common
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blue screen error codes along with their meanings and some possible fixes
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starting with irq not less or equal as
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it turns out I RQ l stands for interrupt
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request level which usually means that a program tried to access a piece of
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memory that was being protected by the operating system for some sort of
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important task and since device drivers
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usually have to access these parts of
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memory since they interface with your operating system and the actual hardware
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this error typically indicates a driver issue so try updating or reinstalling
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any drivers that might be problematic of course this could also indicate a
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problem with the hardware itself perhaps a graphics card that's aggressively
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overclocked and by the way the related
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page Fault in non paged area can indicate a similar problem but those
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aren't the only messages that indicate a hardware error if you see data bus error
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it doesn't mean you have a broken Volkswagen parked in your driveway
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instead this probably means you have an issue with your memory so run a memory
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check utility like mem test 86 plus or try simply pulling out one of your RAM
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sticks and then swapping for the other one to see if one of them has died I
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mean or you can swap out both if you have extras on hand it's entirely
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possible that we are single-handedly causing the continuation of the global
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DRAM shortage so sorry about that this
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may well solve the problem and if it doesn't well it's likely that you have a
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driver or Hardware issue elsewhere in your system another memory be saw memory
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management can often be resolved by going into your BIOS and making sure
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that your RAM settings are correct this particular error can pop up if you've
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overclocked your RAM or if it's not getting the right amount of voltage on
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the subject of overclocking machine check exception is often caused by a CPU
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that is overclocked to the point of instability so try bumping it back to
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stock speed to see if the error goes away and then if you do choose to
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overclock again be a little bit more conservative please but then suppose
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your memory and your processor are fine and you get an error that says fat file
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system don't get out the exercise bike just yet any file system error whether
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it's fat or NTFS simply means that
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you've got some kind of a problem with your hard drive or SSD
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now this could simply be caused by a
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driver issue but there also might be a
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more serious physical issue with your disk so if you see this error backup
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anything important and run a disk check utility followed by a diagnostic utility
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like CTools from the manufacturer of your drive to ensure that it is safe to
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continue to use other kinds of discs
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problems can produce the inaccessible boot device blue screen that could be
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caused by a corrupt sector which can sometimes be fixed by running Windows
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startup repair or simply by choosing the
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wrong disc mode in your BIOS if it's set
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to IDE try changing it to AHCI and vice
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versa of course there are other errors that don't have super obvious causes
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such as system thread exception not handled if you see this common message
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or another error code that you don't recognize see if your blue screen of
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death gives you a file name that you can jot down before the PC reboots this can
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give you a clue as to what driver or program is misbehaving so that you can
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update reinstall or remove it completely
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