Probably not paying attention to this anymore but, just so you know, its Very handy to realize the reality of the Blue Screen of Death.
When you get it, that means it is usually a Hardware problem. It has to do with a blown/broken transistor in the memory. When that particular memory location is accessed by the computer, it is handled with an error known as the blue screen of death. What happens is because the computer can't interpret how to handle the blown transistor.
So, it also helps explain why the blue screen of death is random and comes and goes. Software programs won't fix hardware issues. There are RARE occasions where it is software trouble, but majority of the time, the blue screen of death is hardware. So you understand, the companies people don't tell you this because it would be too long to explain to you. So, they developed a money making idea from it by producing a CD that bypasses the error and skip that part in memory that is broken. (Some modern day computers have this embedded in the operating system already, but not always.)
Can this hardware issue be fixed. NO, it does mean within the next year or 2 the computer system will probably go "chhchchchhcf ppppppfffffffff". It depends, will this bad memory location cause other memory locations next to it overload and break as well? That is the real question. The only real fix of this problem is a replacement chip where the memory location is destroyed.
How much memory bytes can be held now a days? Gbytes to Terabytes?
Also, as you have larger memory availability, this problem will become reduced, because the computer doesn't always access/use THAT broken memory location. And there are software out there to skip that bad memory location and go to next one that works.
This is also why sometimes over time you see a reduced form of what you did have in memory storage.
It depends on how well you take care of your PC. HEAT is 95% cause of the destruction of a computer. How to regulate Heat is a major issue and always is a problem to get around for computers.
