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A computer crashes when it stops working. There are multiple forms of error messages that can occur when a computer crashes, where the best known form is the Blue Screen of Death, which looks like this:

The image failed, so I will try a different one:

It's something that is never good. The computer stops working basically. There are many different ways for it to crash.

Picture a car. The car is driving down the street. It's "running" properly. Something happens. Then the car "crashes". Now the car has stopped working. It happens on a variety of reasons and a lot of different problems can come from this. Sometimes, it also needs to be fixed.

i remember seeing the blue screen of death on our old windows 95 computer.

thats been happening a lot with me lately

This is what Wiki says, with which I agree:

A crash (or system crash) in computing is a condition where a computer or a program, either an application or part of the operating system, ceases to function properly, often exiting after encountering errors. Often the offending program may appear to freeze or hang until a crash reporting service documents details of the crash. If the program is a critical part of the operating system kernel, the entire computer may crash. This is different from a hang or freeze where the application or OS continues to run without obvious response to input.

@Patrick2011

That image is inaccurate. The Blue Screen of Death never had the ability to be a smart-***.

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BSoD for more recent Windows OS'es.

Computer "crashing" can be caused by many things, i crashed my Windows XP laptop just from putting in a flash drive, closing it, and taking out the flash drive well it was closed. I then tryed to put it back in causing the computer to crash.

The "car" anology works best though

I get the blue screen of death like once in a month. The only bad thing it seems to do is restarting my computer. Or is that something that's not the blue screen of death?

Picture a car. The car is driving down the street. It's "running" properly. Something happens. Then the car "crashes". Now the car has stopped working. It happens on a variety of reasons and a lot of different problems can come from this. Sometimes, it also needs to be fixed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szb3aFD1d2Y

As you can see, the computer crashes onto the floor.

Crashing more like an error that the computer can't gracefully handle thus a critical error that causes explosive diarrhea everywhere and instead of trying to clean it up it just gets you a new room. More specifically the kernel which controls all the hardware operations flags that room and kicks you out so you don't get infected with something nasty.

I get the blue screen of death like once in a month.

As you can see, the computer crashes onto the floor.

Three years ago, I shut my computer down like I do every night, got up the next day, turned it on, the HP screen flashed up (just like it had done for the past eight years), the Windows XP screen popped up, then the screen went black, and it never turned on again.

That's how a computer crashes, when you least expect it, and when you least need it to crash.