What Caused The Blue Screen Of Death (View BSOD crash information)

Most of us who have used Windows operating system, has, at one point or the other seen the Blue Screen of Death, the blue screen which comes up just before your system crashes and reboots. While Blue Screen of Death can happen because of several reasons, finding out the reason behind the crash is critical.

BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during ‘blue screen of death’ crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).

For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane. BlueScreenView also mark the drivers that their addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.

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Features offered by BlueScreenView

  • Automatically scans your current minidump folder and displays the list of all crash dumps, including crash dump date/time and crash details.
  • Allows you to view a blue screen which is very similar to the one the Windows displayed during the crash.
  • BlueScreenView enumerates the memory addresses inside the stack of the crash, and find all drivers/modules that might be involved in the crash.
  • BlueScreenView also allows you to work with another instance of Windows, simply by choosing the right minidump folder (In Advanced Options).
  • BlueScreenView automatically locate the drivers appeared in the crash dump, and extract their version resource information, including product name, file version, company, and file description.
Image: BlueScreenView displays crash information about BSOD from the minidump

Image: BlueScreenView displays crash information about BSOD from the minidump

BlueScreenView doesn’t require any installation process or additional dll files. In order to start using it, simply run the executable file – BlueScreenView.exe . After running BlueScreenView, it automatically scans your MiniDump folder and display all crash details in the upper pane.

Download BlueScreenView.

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