We've all been there. You're doing intense gaming or catching up on your YouTube feeds, and suddenly, you're hit with a Blue Screen.

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is a critical error screen displayed by Windows as a way of telling you that something happened where the can no longer operate safely and reboots.

BSODs can happen for a wide variety of reasons, from driver problems to a corrupted operating system to hardware. Thankfully, there are a few tools that can help investigate exactly what the issue may be. 

There are 270 Error Codes Windows 11 can spit out at you. Having a way to read it is easiest. 

Whocrashed

The easiest way to understand what's going on is using a software known as Whocrashed. Whocrashed looks through your dump files and parses out any of the major crashes you've run into (mostly BSOD errors, but sometimes others) and translates them into something understandable. 

You can download Whocrashed for free here: https://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

BlueScreenView

BlueScreenView is a crash analyzer that goes a little deeper for specificity. BlueScreenView uses a table format, and has the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters, aligning with how Microsoft lists them in the Error Codes), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (which is insanely useful and helps us determine what can be causing the issue).

You can download BlueScreenView for free here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html 

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