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".
