Why do people get BSODs

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  1. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #1

    Why do people get BSODs


    There is something I never understood. How do people manage to get so many BSODs. I have PCs since years and by now I have more than half a dozen of them, but I never had a BSOD. Was I just lucky.
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  2. Posts : 1,797
    Win 7 Ultimate, Win 8.1 Pro, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon (All 64-Bit)
       #2

    Only time I've ever had one was the brief moment before my last graphics card died on me. It bluescreened and then the screen had corruption all over it.
    Aside from that one time I've never had another one.
    They seem to mostly be caused due to bad hardware or crappy/incorrect drivers.
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  3. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #3

    Driver conflicts with the hardware :)

    I never get bluescreens

    That was an XP thing
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  4. Posts : 8,679
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #4

    I know the answer, and it's very simple. :)

    People just are not careful while they are working on pc's. They just click everywhere and install everything without reading what that harmful software want to do.

    For me, that's the problem.

    Personally, I have just 2,3 time's got BSOD and that was driver conflict after installing some new hardware. In last 4,5 years, while using Windows 7/10 I don't remember getting that stupid blue screen.
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  5. Posts : 1,442
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #5

    I've had a couple in the days of Windows Me. After installing XP and now Windows 7 I haven't seen any.
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  6. Posts : 1,436
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #6

    Inexperienced computer users maybe?

    Bad configuration of hardware seems to be big cause as well.
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  7. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Thanks, I appreciate you inputs guys. I guess I was lucky. Never had a driver problem.
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  8. Posts : 6,330
    Multi-Boot W7_Pro_x64 W8.1_Pro_x64 W10_Pro_x64 +Linux_VMs +Chromium_VM
       #8

    I got a BSOD a couple of years ago.
    I had over 75% RAM Used, my Hibernate file is set to 75% of RAM.
    It got a BSOD trying to resume from Hibernate.
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  9. Posts : 4,049
    W7 Ultimate SP1, LM19.2 MATE, W10 Home 1703, W10 Pro 1703 VM, #All 64 bit
       #9

    whs said:
    Thanks, I appreciate you inputs guys. I guess I was lucky. Never had a driver problem.
    I've had an NVidia driver update take out my entire PC.
    Somehow during the attempted installation my MBR vanished.

    I accidentally caused my W7 to BSOD by killing a program/service in Process Explorer (I think it was csrss.exe).
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  10. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
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       #10

    Yeah, the csrss.exe seems to be pretty vital.
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