blue screen of death

blue screen of death

English

The blue screen of death on a public payphone.

The blue screen of death in Windows 8.

Noun

blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death)

1. (computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.

   Synonyms: blue screen, BSOD

   • 2007, Paul Lilly, “BSOD Crash Course”, in Maximum PC, page 40:

     A Blue Screen of Death is like an encrypted message from your computer telling you there's a problem. We're going to help you make sense of the gobbledygook so you can fix whatever's ailing your PC!

Derived terms

• red ring of death
• screen of death

 

Translations

screen indicating a system error

Arabic: شَاشَة اَلْمَوْت اَلزَّرْقَاء‎ f (šāšat al-mawt az-zarqāʾ) Azerbaijani: BSOD, ölümün göy ekranı Belarusian: сі́ні экра́н сме́рці m (síni ekrán smjérci) Bulgarian: син екра́н на смъ́ртта m (sin ekrán na smǎ́rtta) Catalan: pantalla blava de la mort f Chinese: Mandarin: 藍屏死機／蓝屏死机 (zh) (lánpíng sǐjī), 藍色當機畫面／蓝色当机画面 (lánsè dāngjī huàmiàn), 蓝屏 (zh) (lánpíng) Czech: modrá obrazovka smrti f Danish: BSOD, blå skærm, blå skærm af død Dutch: blauw scherm des dood Estonian: sinine surmaekraan (et) Finnish: BSOD (fi), sininen kuolemanruutu French: écran bleu de la mort m German: Bluescreen m Greek: μπλε οθόνη του θανάτου (ble othóni tou thanátou) Hebrew: המוות הכחול‎ Hungarian: kék halál (hu) Indonesian: BSOD, Layar Biru Kematian Italian: schermo blu della morte m Japanese: 死の青スクリーン (shi no ao sukurīn) Korean: 죽음의 파란 화면 (jugeumui paran hwamyeon), 블루스크린 (beulluseukeurin) Macedonian: син екра́н на смртта m (sin ekrán na smrtta) Malay: skrin biru mati Norwegian: blåskjerm Persian: صفحه آبی مرگ‎ (safhe-ye âbi-ye marg) Polish: niebieski ekran śmierci m Portuguese: tela azul da morte (pt) f Romanian: BSOD, Ecranul Albastru al Morții Russian: си́ний экра́н сме́рти m (sínij ekrán smérti), голубо́й экра́н сме́рти m (golubój ekrán smérti) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: плави ѐкра̄н смрти m Roman: plavi èkrān smrti m Slovak: modrá obrazovka smrti f Slovene: modri zaslon m, modri zaslon smrti m Spanish: pantalla azul de la muerte Swedish: blåskärm (sv), blå skärm av döden Tagalog: Bughaw na Tabing ng Kamatayan Thai: จอฟ้ามรณะ Turkish: mavi ekran Ukrainian: си́ній екра́н сме́рті m (sýnij ekrán smérti) Vietnamese: màn hình xanh chết chóc

See also

• fatal system error, kernel panic

Further reading

• blue screen of death on Wikipedia.Wikipedia