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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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result in a system running slowly or spontaneously rebooting.

Catastrophic Failure

You’ll know when a catastrophic error occurs. The PC will suddenly get a

Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), what’s technically called a Windows Stop

error (see Figure 3-48). On macOS, by comparison, you might get a spinning

pinwheel that doesn’t stop or a kernel panic (i.e., automatic restart).

(CompTIA calls the BSoD and pinwheel proprietary crash screens and adds

a space in the latter, so pin wheel.)

Figure 3-48 Blue Screen of Death

Or the entire computer will simply stop and go black, perhaps

accompanied by a loud pop. The acrid smell of burnt electronics or ozone

will grace your nasal passages. You might even see trails of smoke coming

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