Blue Screen of Death Analysis in Windows 2000

Win2000 may be an epoch-making operating system, but it still can't avoid the Blue Screen of Death problem. The purpose of this paper is to solve the BSOD problem and give a solution to how to deal with the general blue screen problem.

Introduction

What is the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) problem?
BSOD is the error message displayed on the background of the blue screen. Generally this kind of error message is serious enough to crash your entire operating system, you only have the option to restart the cold boot.

Stop Messages and Hardware Messages

The BSOD of Win2000 and the BSOD message of NT4 are completely different. The biggest difference is that the BSOD in NT contains only one generic stop message type (the actual error code), but Win2000's BSOD contains two message types: stop message and hardware message. The stop message refers to the error message that is generated when the win2000 kernel finds a software error that it cannot recover. Hardware messages are error messages that are generated when Win2000 finds a serious hardware conflict.

BSOD

BSOD can be divided into separate parts, each part containing valuable error handling information. These sections include:

1. The bug check section: This is the location of the BSOD that contains the actual error message. In this part, you should pay attention to the error code (the hexadecimal number after the word "Stop") and the error symbol (the word that follows the error code)

2. Recommended User Actions section: This section often contains some general instructions on how to correct the wrong steps
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3. Debug Port Information Section: This section contains information on how you should set up your kernel debugger. The kernel debugger is a tool that allows you to manually connect to your computer and debug your process.

Four types of stop information

When an error message that cannot be controlled by the program or the driver or an illegal instruction is attempted, the system will stop the error message. This information usually consists of four types.

1, the general stop message: stop message when the normal use of win2000

2, the installation stop message: the stop message in the process of installing win2000, usually exists in your system Caused by hardware devices that are not compatible with 2000.

3, executable program installation stop message: indicates the stop message that occurred in the fourth phase (execution program part) of the 2000 installation process.

4. Software Trap Stop Message: A stop message that occurs due to an error trap in the software and when the program attempts to execute an illegal instruction.

Regardless of whether win2000 is by far the greatest operating system or not, it can't be without errors. At least we know that in 2000, BSOD still exists. The following is a more detailed description of it:

The following is a specific BSOD example:

*** Stop: 0x0000001E (0xF24A447A, 0X00000001, 0X0000000)
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
*** Address F24A447A base at f24A0000, DateStamp 35825ef8d - wdmaud.sys

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer.
If this screen appears again, follow These steps:

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the
Stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates.
Try changing video Adapters.

Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options
such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable
components, restart your computer , press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options,
and then select Safe Mode.

Refer to your Getting Started manual for more informati On on troubleshooting Stop errors.

Kernel Debugger Using: COM2 (Port 0x2f8, Baud Rate 19200)
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or technical support group.

According to this specific example, according to the four parts of BSOD analyzed above, the following ones are introduced: