


BSODs occur to prevent any further hardware damage as the system believes this might well happen if it allows things to proceed. Power supply issues / driver issues / faulty RAM or Motherboard / processor / conflicting devices are other causes. Yes a GPU crashing can cause its driver to stop reporting to Windows which can cause a hardfault and a BSOD. So in short, no, shutting down a computer during a BSOD would not cause issues as the computer has in a sense, already partially shutdown from a software standpoint. What you see occurring during the bluescreen itself is the operating system recording a log of what happened. Can I turn off my computer during blue screen? In the Windows 9x era, incompatible DLLs or bugs in the operating system kernel could also cause BSoDs. Why does the blue screen of death happen?īSoDs can be caused by poorly written device drivers or malfunctioning hardware, such as faulty memory, power supply issues, overheating of components, or hardware running beyond its specification limits.

