Computer Question

[E4208]

Anyone here ever experience "the blue screen of death" on a PC?

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[CPT]

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I have a PC though too so maybe could help! What is the error on the blue screen? They usually frazzle me though.


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[E4208]

Thanks CPT--There isn't an error msg. The computer was in sleep mode and when I woke it up, there was the blue screen made up with tiny blocks. Looks like a distorted normal screen.

I asked my daughter to look at it and her immediate response was: oh no, you've got the blue screen of death. She's had it twice work. It grows slowly. Takes about two months to kill the hard drive.
You can still use the machine until it dies, but run the risk of spreading it. It is considered an infection of the hard drive as opposed to a virus. Norton doesn't help and ccleaner doesn't help.

In all my years, I had never seen it or talked to anyone who got it. Not considered a virus.

[Darlene]

I found this website with an explanation and fix for the blue screen of death. I can't attest how accurate it is but, thought I'd post it anyway in case it might help.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-fix-a-blue-screen-of-death-2624518

[E4208]

Thanks Darlene.

I've since learned that these screens come in several colors and it can happen to Apple products as well.
Still trying to confirm if that is what we saw.

[merlot_1]

Reinstall Windows, you should have a restore disk that came with it. You will lose all your documents and pictures but will still have a computer. It's going to die anyway so you should try the restore disk.

[Mary9915]

A BSOD can mean many different things. Did you take a picture of it that you can post here along with what Windows version you are running?

[charlie50]

Thanks CPT--There isn't an error msg. The computer was in sleep mode and when I woke it up, there was the blue screen made up with tiny blocks. Looks like a distorted normal screen.

I asked my daughter to look at it and her immediate response was: oh no, you've got the blue screen of death. She's had it twice work. It grows slowly. Takes about two months to kill the hard drive.
You can still use the machine until it dies, but run the risk of spreading it. It is considered an infection of the hard drive as opposed to a virus. Norton doesn't help and ccleaner doesn't help.

In all my years, I had never seen it or talked to anyone who got it. Not considered a virus.

interesting ..never heard of this before . hope you backed up your drive . good luck

[E4208]

A BSOD can mean many different things. Did you take a picture of it that you can post here along with what Windows version you are running?

Mary9915-- I didn't get a pic. I'm running Windows10. I'm not sure we saw what we think we saw. Performance hasn't degraded. Actually it's better. I was able to take the new update
to win10 so I may be ok. I've looked at examples of bsod and haven't found the screen I saw. It was like tiny boxes on a blue screen. Could have been a screen that didn't load right and we
made the wrong assumption. I have stored all files and pics to an external hard drive. Cleaned the c drive and defragged. Running great for now.

[owls]

I found this...hope it helps.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-troubleshoot-blue-screen-errors-windows-10

[Mary9915]

Mary9915-- I didn't get a pic. I'm running Windows10. I'm not sure we saw what we think we saw. Performance hasn't degraded. Actually it's better. I was able to take the new update
to win10 so I may be ok. I've looked at examples of bsod and haven't found the screen I saw. It was like tiny boxes on a blue screen. Could have been a screen that didn't load right and we
made the wrong assumption. I have stored all files and pics to an external hard drive. Cleaned the c drive and defragged. Running great for now.

Glad to hear that. It's always a good idea to keep an external backup or cloud backup of things you don't want to lose!