On a computer display, a blue screen, sometimes displaying computer code, which appears when the operating system crashes and must be rebooted.
This refers to a Windows error message that is shown on a screen with a blue background. In Windows NT, this type of message causes the computer to stop completely and is usually caused by improperly written hardware drivers or faulty hardware. Other BSODs can occur in different versions of Windows as well, but are not always as disastrous.
(Humour) is the white-on-blue text screen or just blue screen without text which appears when Microsoft Windows crashes. It is most likely to be caused by a GPF (General Protection Failure). It is often impossible to recover cleanly from a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).
The well known state where Windows displays a solid blue screen with lots of seemingly random numbers and letters describing where a critical component of Windows NT has just crashed. This is unrecoverable save to reboot.
The blue screen of death is a rather terrifying display image containing white text on a blue background that is generated by Windows operating systems when the system has suddenly terminated with an error.
(BSoD) When a Windows NT-based system encounters a serious error, the entire operating system halts and displays a screen with information regarding the error. The name comes from the blue color of the error screen.
The Blue Screen of Death (sometimes 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 cannot recover from, or is in danger of being unable to recover from, 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.
