Blue Screen of Death

humour (BSOD) The infamous white-on-blue text screen which

appears when Microsoft Windows crashes. BSOD is mostly seen

on the 16-bit systems such as Windows 3.1, but also on

Windows 95 and apparently even under Windows NT 4. It is

most likely to be caused by a GPF, although Windows 95 can

do it if you've removed a required CD-ROM from the drive.

It is often impossible to recover cleanly from a BSOD.

The acronym BSOD is sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Windoze

just keeps BSODing on me today".

(1998-09-08)