How to Find and View BSOD Log Files in Windows Event Viewer [Tutorial]

How to Find and View BSOD Log Files in Windows Event Viewer [Tutorial]

In case of a BSoD error, Windows saves the blue screen log file in a specific location. Here’s where to find BSoD log files and open them.

When a Blue Screen of Death error occurs, Windows displays its details and code for a short time and restart the PC. Even sometimes Windows restart so quickly that the users cannot note down the error code. In such situations, BSOD log files can help. In this tutorial, we will show you how to find and view BSOD log files in Windows 11/10.

When there is an irrecoverable system critical error, Windows throws the BSoD error with the relevant error message. These critical errors include but not limited to driver issues, corrupt system files, timing error, corrupt registry values, etc. After creating the necessary log files and memory dump, Windows usually restarts the system automatically.

In the vast majority of situations, the error code shown on the BSoD screen is sufficient to troubleshoot and fix the problem. However, if you’ve missed the error message on the BSoD screen or if you need the BSoD log files for better troubleshooting, you can access the log files in a variety of ways.

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When your computer crashes and you face a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), your system saves the details of the crash as a BSOD log, in a pre-defined location in Windows. This information gives you details about when the crash happened, what caused it, and sometimes even what to do to fix the problem.

In this guide, we will first discuss where are the BSOD files located in Windows and then how to identify them. Once you have located a BSOD file, we will show you how to read it properly to understand the potential causes of the error and resolve the problem.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.

[MichaelCook-oolj]

This tutorial does NOT tell the viewer how to isolate Windows Stop Errors (BSoD) in the event viewer. All you're doing is filtering for Errors of any kind.

To find a BSoD in the Event Viewer, navigate to Windows Logs->System then in the right-hand pane select FIlter Current Log... and in the Event sources dropdown select BugCheck and press OK. You can optionally check Error for Event level and optionally add 1001 for Event IDs. This will isolate BSoDs. However, it won't give you very much useful information to work from. You're better off analyzing the crash dump file with a utility like BlueScreenView.

[Nick]

I ended Edge in the task manager and got a blue screen. ( Windows 11) After doing a Google search I found I wasn't the only one. Microsoft is evil

[sohaib.jebreel]

I was playing a game with youtube opened and randomly i got blue screen