BSOD | troubleshoot & fix *ANY* Windows Blue Screen of Death

Are you getting BSOD (blue screen of death) errors when using (or just starting) Windows? This is quite a common occurrence, but not something you necessarily need to be scared of. In today's video, I show you how to first of all figure out what that blue screen error means, and then how to troubleshoot and possibly fix the problem on your own!

Let me know in the comments if you have any questions. I will help in any way I can :)

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[THE-michaelmyers]

One of my favorite videos was one of Gates being interviewed as he was introducing a new product and the computer blue-screened. The first time I saw that video I spit out my coffee.

[DrMatey]

I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Can never learn enough about computers. Good job!

[ramonrios]

I want to say thank you I was having problem with my computer I had the blue screen and I saw your video and I did what you suggested now my computer is working like brand new and the thing is I'm a disabled veteran vision impaired and I did it thank you again

[JasonWestaway]

Hey Scott,

Thanks for the video. As said before always enjoy your explanations of how you do it with ease.
Just a thought on two USB flash drives (2:02) why not use one 128 GB+ and add Ventoy on the USB flash drive.
One USB drive where you can add multiple ISO's that are bootable.

You even made a video on it and had that bonus feature at the end. I know I did it that way with Ventoy and it works like a charm.

Anyway as always! Thanks for your awesome content!

Till next time.

[MKWarrior]

Just took the laptop to IT it’s now been fixed they told me that my hard drive was corrupted probably because of my storage being nearly full but I did bring in my USB adapter just in case which he didn’t use all he did was did a factory reset on my laptop glad I find this video useful in some way thank you!

[rhavon]

I need your help! My lenovo ideapad3 did a update and cant get past the Hello sign? i've followed you for a while, Ive restarted it over and over! Help

[toomuchcandor]

Honestly your calm tone is v helpful. Makes me think its actually doable

[seaninobertz]

Hi bro, I've been having a blue screen for months now. It happens often but mostly when I shut down. It flags the vga driver as the error. A kernel mode trap error. I then reinstalled the system and updated everything in the drivers. Microsoft advised me to get a new hdmi cable for my TV which I use as a monitor. The new cable a good quality one didn't work. But the old one does. Weird. Can you advise me

[YouChwb]

The exact reason why I kept my Win 8 laptop before I got a phone. Will always have the Win 8 for my DoS and other CD games.

[jaimeisreal]

*IMPORTANT TIP:* Just a quick tip for Windows 11 users. Be cautious at best when trying to make your OS look and/or feel like another OS (Windows 7 for example). Those OS-altering apps screw up the Windows registry and in my case, rendered Windows 11 to a useless, blue-screen state. The error code was "CRITICAL PROCESS DIED". I was trying to make my Father's new laptop that runs Windows 11 look and feel like Windows 7 using those OS altering apps like open-shell and a couple of others -- they rendered Windows 11 completely useless after a restart. I know why. It's from messing with the registry too much and it rendered the OS useless with no fix -- other than re-installing the OS. I ended up using Windows 10 instead, as Windows 10 doesn't really need any of those questionable apps to make it look sort of like Windows 7. My Father hates every other OS except Windows 7. He can't let it go, but I can't blame him.

[chandrawong]

Thanks, can you please tell us or do a YouTube on why Windows 10 fails Security updates with error codes.

[silenthank]

Okay so I was trying to make all my ram was usable (since I got a new ram stick) and I had to keep opening the app that allows you to do that type of thing, I had to keep restarting the laptop and opening this app up again and again and without fail it wouldn't stay the same ram usage then the blue screen occurred any way to get that back working?

[RobertoSantos-neus]

My Acer notebook is new and it's just giving me the blue screen error: "Unexpected Kernel Mode Trap"...do you know how to fix this?

[MKWarrior]

I may have to bring this to collage as they have IT there so I’ll tell them it’s a software/window problem so thanks for that info

[theldun]

I've been getting this a lot since the last update. It keeps trying to repair one of my hard drives. I never had any problems with that hard drive until the update that was installed just 2 days ago.

[firasjoseph]

if not open the window how can we get the data?!

[MikesVlogss]

@Ask Your Computer Guy Great video, this helped as a little preventive maintenance on my laptops...

[Random_guyOnInternet]

Hey Scott, I appreciate your knowledge that you shared with us, but Im just not getting any stop code when BSOD occurs. PLease help me out, I appreciate it.

[ronaldkrause]

The problem I'm having is computer freezes 2 or 3 times then after that when restarted it works fine I did the scannow and I still have this issue help thank you Ron

[feliciamoore]

I'm trying to factory restore my HP but i don't know the bitlocker code or how to get past that blue screen error in order to factory restore my computer can you help with that and it keep saying no boot device found please