Are you having trouble with the blue screen of death in windows? This type of problem happens less frequently in Windows XP, but it still happens and nothing can be so frustrating. Many times the problem will take care of itself after rebooting, but sometimes it just continues to happen. Having trouble with blue screen of death in windows can be a hair pulling, heart wrenching experience.

What is the blue screen of death anyway? First off, it would probably help if we really understood what this is. By its name alone we would imagine that it is a problem so serious that we might as well go off and chuck the whole computer in the trash bin. But it really isn't as bad as you think.

The blue screen of death is actually only a windows stop message. This happens when windows run into a problem and it can't get to the windows screen any longer without some action being taken. In Windows XP these blue screens are numbered which helps when trying to troubleshoot the problem that's why it's important to write down the numbers that appear from one that keeps recurring on you.

If you happen to get a blue screen and the computer won't reboot try taking it into safe mode by pressing F8 when booting. If your computer goes into safe mode then it is probable problems with software or device drivers that are the culprit. Try rebooting your computer and press F8 again, this time instead of choosing safe mode, choose last known good configuration. This may get you back into windows. If it does, then you should download a registry fix utilities program, run it and fix any problems you might have with the registry.

If you continue getting the blue screen of death and you have just installed new hardware or a new software program, then try removing the hardware and uninstalling the device drivers, afterwards you can reinstall the drivers again.

If this is not the case and you are still getting the blue screen of death then you are probably experiencing a hardware problem and it is probably best to call in a repair technician because it can be any number of things. It can be your power supply, your ram memory or even your motherboard.

Remember to write down the code number of the blue screen as that number will better be able to help the repair person diagnose the cause of the blue screen.

Blue screens do not happen as frequently as they did with windows 95 or 98, but when they do happen, they can really be a pain. Fortunately there is always a solution to having trouble with blue screen of death in Windows, and usually no matter how bad it is; it is going to be less expensive than having to buy a new computer.