John turns on his computer, as he sits down to his computer. As soon as the computer boots up, a blue screen full of odd coding and letters pop up. He sits perplexed for a minute, trying to remember if he’d done something different when he booted up the computer. Desperately, he begins pounding at the keyboard, trying to get the blue screen to go away.
The windows stop error, which is more commonly known as “The Blue Screen of Death”, can randomly appear without a user having any idea or signs of hard drive failure. Seeing a blue screen can mean several things. First, it could just be that a nasty virus has attacked the hard drive and is affecting operating system files, which would prevent the drive from booting up correctly. The other reason for a blue screen is that the drive has some internal parts that are just going bad. Again, if Windows has detected a serious issue that it cannot recover itself, it will show the blue screen. Usually, the blue screen will provide number codes which will tell a technician what the issue is that needs fixing.
Sometimes simply re-booting the computer in safe mode may seem to fix the problem and windows may load correctly. If the re-boot works, then the user should immediately backup all of their data, because generally if this error shows up, a computer crash is very likely not be too far behind. After backing up data, the user should run their anti-virus and even spyware software. If that does not find anything, sometimes booting up again and running the system restore utility and then configuring to the last known good configuration could help.
If the issue is not fixed by the above solutions, it could be a damaged hardware issue. Either way, it may save time and frustration to just take the computer to a computer repair shop and have them fix it. They should be able to do this very quickly, and give the customer a peace of mind that they will not lose their data from this issue.
