The dreaded Blue Screen of Death that shows up in Windows when something has gone drastically wrong is wildly frustrating, pops up out of nowhere and can be difficult to troubleshoot, plus it’s more than a bit terrifying to think your system may be in need of a costly repair. Try not to panic, we’ll walk through some basic techniques you can use to diagnose and fix a blue screen of death or BSOD on your own.
What is a BSOD?
A blue screen of death is the technically called a stop error or fatal system error and it happens when the OS crashes due to no longer being able to run safely. The blue screen of death has seen many iterations over the years with Windows 10 even having a frowny face just in case you weren’t sad enough about it already. Fortunately, this screen also will tell you some information about what the problem was then it will restart. Take a picture of it with your phone if you have one nearby since you can’t copy and paste once you are in BSOD mode and it…