You know what a blue screen of death is, right? The SOD, sometimes you will be typing in Windows and all of a sudden bam! A blue screen appears, right here. I will show you exactly. I can call a blue screen on demand. Thanks to the blue screensaver from sees internals. You can download a blue screen screensaver from Microsoft.com. That is a blue screen of death. But it is not a real one. It is just an image of a blue screen of death. Well I think it is an image. It is kind of fun to be able to call on this up on the band but it is not fun when you have a blue screen of death and Josh sent in a top five list for avoiding the blue screen of death or at least dealing with the effects of the blue screen of death and I thought – you know it was good enough to read. I have read through them like yes, it is pretty much got his rights. He is pretty much on point.
There is one person in the chat room earlier who is saying that he had never had a blue screen of death, I said “what are you, a Mac user?” This is pretty much about the only way to avoid them. So here we, go the top five lists as submitted by Josh.
Number one, check your hardware. Sometimes people will receive a blue screen of death after adding new hardware to their system. If their hardware is recently installed, does not have the correct drivers, chances are it will be unstable and crash the system. To prevent this from happening, make sure you install the drivers from a manufacturer site that made the hardware. Drivers not only have the computer detect what you have installed it is well as enough you are not going to get a blue screen of death.
Remember drivers sometimes get fused with software. Make sure they are the drivers and not the software that comes with the device. Well drivers themselves are software but so you got hardware and you got your operating system. The hardware used to communicate somehow with the operating system. The operating systems got to know exactly what is going on with the hardwares.
The hardware, to communicate with the operating system like windows, needs a driver and that driver tells everything how to get along. Well if the driver is buggy you could end up getting a blue screen of death and you do all have experienced a lot of blue screens of death in the past and some of that related to business lack cluster support for USB devices and USB drivers which allegedly they are going to be improving in business service pack one.
It leads in the number two, driver updates. Drivers sometimes have updates quite frequently. If you do not update the driver for a specific hardware device, the device may become further unstable. Or just the interaction of it is they may have been fixed in a driver update. Similar to looking for drivers in the first place but you should always look for driver updates whenever you can. A good way to check for your updates is on the manufacturer’s website. Bookmark the page where the drivers you usually found. Sometimes you can sign up for updates. Check the site once a month to see if it is updated. Always install the new drivers but you got be careful. Sometimes you want to need backups of previous drivers because even if it is a new driver for the hardware, it maybe buggier than the old driver, you will never know. And if you can, make sure you uninstall the old drivers before installing the new one. Sounds complicated, does it not? Yes I know, but it is a blue screen of death and these things are not easy to deal with but we do our best. We do our best. And for whatever it is worth. One of the reasons why Microsoft changed so much as they did in Microsoft Windows Vista. Well it is because most of the blue screens that happen in the early versions of Windows were related to video card drivers. So they try to make it better and in some cases they did, in some cases it did not work so well.
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