THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

Early BSOD

The Blue Screen of Death - technically known and often refer to as a STOP message or STOP Error. It's a full screen error that often displays after a fatal system crash.

Texts on the Blue Screen of Death may list files or several files which are the reason of the system crash including any drivers that may had been faulty, often a short and sometimes cryptic, description of what to do about crash or the system failure or problem as they had describe it.

The text on the error screen were several error codes along with most often, four other codes, whose meanings depend on the error code itself, and an error name. Depending on the code, it may display the memory address at which the problem occurred, together with identifying some details of the driver file which are loaded to that address.

BSOD on earlier Version of Windows

By default, Windows based systems creates memory dump file when an BSOD error occurs. Depending of the operating system version, it would range from a 64kb mini-dump to a complete dump of memory that saves the entire contents of the RAM, which the file can be analyzed later. Memory dumps and error details were stored in %windir%\MiniDump\. A kernel debugger program may be used in order to obtain a trace to find the real cause of the problem, as the on-screen information is limited.

A BSOD error or STOP error can also be caused by a critical boot loader error, where the operating system is unable to start from the bootable drive due to the presence of a damaged file systems, an incorrect disk driver, which in some cases, no memory dump is being saved.

Microsoft, released a new operating system platform last year, 2012, which popularly known as Windows 8, which had a feature of a redesigned Blue Screen of Death. Instead of displaying detailed technical information about the error and what causes it, it simply displays short explanation that the system needs to be restarted, a technical name of the error, and a sad emoticon.

Windows 8 BSOD

The redesigned Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8 also contains a lighter share of blue in the background. Some known technology websites like of TechCrunch described the redesigned BSOD version in Windows 8 as "a step in the right direction",  stating that the information provided on previous versions was unintelligible to most Windows users. 

However, it does contains less information than the previous versions, omitting some memory addresses and file names which makes the advance users to potentially spot the underlying problem such as an obvious driver related problem.

In general, Blue Screen of Death, usually caused by an illegal operation being performed, where the only safe action to take is to reboot or restart the computer. As a result, some data's which are not save will be lost, since the user's not getting the opportunity to save their work.

One good suggestion I could offer you guys before you can do any troubleshooting is, you will need to prevent this automatic rebooting by disabling the automatic restart on system failure option in Windows which can be access in Advance Boot Options Menu by pressing F8 as the Windows splash screen begins to load. This method of accessing the Advance Boot Options Menu applies to all versions of Windows that includes the menu, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, etc.

After rebooting, of course, you will have to find the the BSOD code which appears during the crash on several known search engines and then apply it on your system to see if its gonna work, else, you need to ask for someone who could do it for you easily. Of course, you need to pay for the services.