does bsof save your computer?

brian

brian

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so when you get a bsod it says windows has shut down your computer to prevent damage. if you disable it does it really do any damage? if it does little is there a way to disable it?
 
A "Blue Screen of Death" BSOD is generally caused by a driver problem and usually results in a hard reboot or shutdown of the system. Hard shutdowns and hard boots can see hard drive damage more then anything. That would be seen if the read/write heads should slap against the drive's platters. You will have to examine the programs as well as look for removing and updating device drivers to correct this.
 
sorry typo :D. so you are saying that if you disabled it and it ran into a problem it would just shut down?
 
Often when you have a bad install of drivers or a new program maybe even a drivers gets lost or corrupted Windows will simply lock up. That's where you see the error information on the screen. For the most part this is generally a software problem. Have you tried booting in safe mode? There you can use the msconfig to disable items in the startup group to isolate the source of the problem like disabling the softwares for video and sound cards.
 
I'm fairly sure you can't disable it. BSODs are kernel traps and they mean something bad happened and windows has halted everything to prevent it from possinly getting worse. If you could disable them and a condition was met that would normally get a BSOD chances are good your PC would be useless until you reboot it anyway so it's not a bad thing to have on, at least you get an indication of what went wrong and can try to fix it.
 
Have you added any new programs or updates lately? When a driver goes bad and tries accessing memory addresses reserved by Windows for system and not 3rd party software you will get a crash at times. The last bsod here was due to video card drivers of all things.

Once the system was up in safe mode the removal of the drivers saw that corrected fast. But the error information was something to take notice of. Hardware drivers are surprisingly the more common cause.
 
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