» Windows Tips »How to Know the Reasons for Blue Screen of Death on Windows 10/11
When we use the computer in our daily life, we must have encountered the problem of the blue screen of death, every time this interface pops up, our first thought is to restart the computer, which can basically solve 99% of the problems, and the remaining 1% of the problems need to reinstall the system, so have you ever thought about it? Why is there a blue screen? Below I will introduce you to two ways to find out the cause of the blue screen on Windows 10/11, let's take a look!
The blue screen of a computer is usually caused by either software or hardware issues. Software problems include downloading viruses, incompatible drivers, or software that conflicts with the system. Hardware problems often involve failures in key components like the CPU, graphics card, memory, hard drive, power supply, or cooling. To diagnose the issue, it's best to analyze the error report provided by Windows, as listing every possible cause is impractical. By identifying the root cause, you can apply the appropriate fix to resolve the blue screen issue.
Before introducing these two methods, make sure that there is a Minidump folder in your system disk, and the specific path is as follows:
C:\Windows\Minidump
This folder will be dedicated to bug reports for every system crash, which will be used later. If your system disk does not have this folder, you can create it by doing the steps.
Step 1 Right-click on the computer and select Properties.
Step 2 Click Advanced system settings.
Step 3 Click Settings in Startup and Recovery.
Step 4 Select Small Memory Dump and select Write events to logs.
This way, the next time the system crashes, you'll be able to find the crashed dmp file in the path above.
Step 1 Find and open the Microsoft Store.
Step 2 Enter WinDbg to find the corresponding program, download and install it.
Step 3 Go back to the Minidump folder, find and run the crash log dmp file.
Step 4 Click "!analyze -v" to analyze the error.
Step 5 The reason for the blue screen of the computer can be seen in the analysis report at the end. As an example in the picture below, the cause of the blue screen of the computer is memory corruption. You may need to check the memory-related issues.
Tips:
Step 1 Click here to download BluescreenView and install it.
Step 2 Unzip the downloaded file and run BlueScreenView.exe.
Step 3 View the DMP file in BluescreenView and analyze the cause of the blue screen.
The advantage of BluescreenView is that you don't have to open the DMP files one by one, the software automatically puts them together for you, and you can sort them by time or name to find the cause of the error you're looking for. It's a very useful app.
This article mainly introduces two ways to find out the blue screen of death on your computer, and briefly introduces the causes of the blue screen and some ways to deal with the blue screen. I hope it can help you, even Bill Gates can't avoid the blue screen when using the computer, we can only keep debugging in the process of hitting the blue screen again and again to make our computer reach the best state.
