Fix Blue Screen of Death in Windows 10

While you are upgrading the operating system, booting or simply working on your computer/ laptop, you might encounter a problem of Stop Error Screen in Windows 8.1/ 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP. Well, this issue also happens to the latest operating system Windows 10. When this problem occurs, you could see there is a big ‘Sad’ icon on your screen. In this case, some are suffering from a Blue Screen of Death, on the other hand, some are involving in a Black Screen.

Generally, there are three scenarios about blue screen of death in Windows 10: BSOD while booting Windows 10, BSOD while working on Windows 10, and BSOD reboot loop. In this post, it will analyze the causes and propose the effective solutions for each scenario.

Senario 1: Blue Screen of Death on Windows 10 While booting

After you upgraded to Windows and forgot to upgrades the device drivers, you might have difficulties in booting Windows 10 if the blue screen stuck on your machine. The corrupted or incompatible drivers and wrong updates are the main reason leading to this issue. Find the solutions below to solve your problem.

Solution 1: Removing the updates after BSOD occurred

Step 1: Go to Setting -> Windows Updates
Step 2: Click on Advanced -> View Installed Updates
Step 3: Check the date of the Updates
Step 4: Remove the updates installed on the date after BSOD occurred

Solution 2: Block automatic driver updates

Please follow the above 5 steps first, then go to Control Panel -> Advanced System settings -> Hardware tab -> Device Installation settings to block automatic driver updates.

Note: After you turn off the automatic driver updates, it is suggested you use a third party driver tool to update the device drivers. Driver Talent is highly recommended, which is able to help you to download and install the best-match driver.

Scenario 2: Blue Screen of Death on Windows 10 while working

If the drivers are incompatible with Windows 10 after operating system upgrading, the blue screen of death might be happen. Please also check if you add or install hardware recently. This might be also one reason resulting in blue screen of death on Windows 10. Follow the below solutions to solve the problem.

Solution 1: Using Driver Talent to troubleshoot

Driver Talent is a professional and authorized driver update tool. It is able to scan your computer/ laptop to detect the outdated or corrupted device drivers, but also to update and fix drivers.

Step 1: Start Driver Talent to detect the drivers.
Step 2: Click Start, Driver Talent could download & install the best match drivers or repair the broken drivers for you.

Solution 2: Remove the hardware installed recently

If you installed the hardware recently, to remove it could fix the blue screen of death on Windows 10. Please shut down your computer/ laptop before you take this step.

Scenario 3: Blue screen of death reboot loop

Blue screen reboot loop will prevent your access to the Windows 10 desktop, but you will be taken to repair mode automatically after a while. You could use the System Restore facility to figure out this problem from there. Check the following steps.

Step 1: Click on System Restore
Step 2: Select a date/ point prior when BSOD is appearing

All above methods are workable to solve blue screen of death on Windows 10. If you have any other easy and effective ways to get rid of blue screen, please leave a message in comment. For any other problems on Windows 10, you could get hot tips from source center.