{"id":535,"date":"2011-06-27T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redwireservices.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2014-11-08T13:04:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:04:40","slug":"blue-screen-purple-screen-and-kernel-panics-how-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redwireservices.com\/blue-screen-purple-screen-and-kernel-panics-how-to-fix","title":{"rendered":"Blue Screen, Purple Screen, and Kernel Panics: How To Revive Your System"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most of us have been there, one minute you are working along diligently on an important document or presentation and BAHM!\u00a0 It happens.\u00a0 You are presented with a blue screen with \u201cinformation\u201d that might as well be in Greek.\u00a0 Even worse, if you manage servers, you may notice one day that your server applications no longer work and when investigating you see the dreaded screen.\u00a0 Now not only can you not work, but now the whole office is offline!<\/p>\n
This Windows screen, also known as the \u201cBlue Screen of Death\u201d or \u201cBSOD\u201d, indicates a serious system error that could be damaging to your system and data, so the system shuts down abruptly to stop even further problems.\u00a0 While this means anything you were working on, but not saved, is lost, it is a safety mechanism to avoid as much data loss as possible.<\/p>\n
Usually the error (if you can manage to decipher it) basically says something happened that should never happen and is therefore strictly prohibited.\u00a0 You could think of a traffic cop seeing multiple cars entering the intersection contrary to his instructions\u2026 the safest thing to do is stop all<\/strong> traffic, then figure out why it happened.\u00a0 This is what Windows is doing; it doesn\u2019t know exactly what happened, but it knows it is not good.<\/p>\n