BSOD
abbreviation or noun
variants
or less commonly BSoD
plural BSODs also BSoDs
: a screen (see screen entry 1 sense 4b) that usually consists of an error message displayed in white text on a solid blue background and that occurs when an electronic device has encountered an error from which it cannot recover : blue screen of death
… after the upgrade, customers may experience the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) intermittently, after the system is resumed from sleep or hibernate modes.—
Barry Collins
Barry CollinsMy own problems this morning, after the update sneaked in, saw my PC sit in a continual reboot cycle of BSODs pointing at memory, graphics card and other errors.—Antony Leather
Antony LeatherMischievous magical forces quickly began interfering with my trainees' computers from Monday onwards, provoking more application freezes, system crashes and BSoDs during the first morning than I would normally expect in an average month.—Alistair Dabbs
Alistair DabbsExamples of BSOD in a Sentence
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To this day, networked PCs in macOS are represented by beige CRT monitors displaying a BSOD.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2023
Rest assured there aren’t any major BSOD changes coming to the Windows side at the moment.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
However, a growing list of users are commenting on Reddit that the update caused their computers to BSOD.
—Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 24 Aug. 2023
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Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2023
Rest assured there aren’t any major BSOD changes coming to the Windows side at the moment.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
However, a growing list of users are commenting on Reddit that the update caused their computers to BSOD.
—Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 24 Aug. 2023
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“BSOD.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BSOD. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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