black screen of death
The Black Screen of Death (KSoDAlthough the short form BSoD was once used to describe the Black Screen of Death, nowadays the said short form is used to describe the much more common Blue Screen of Death (for Windows) so as to avoid confusion between the Blue and Black Screens of Death. or BlSoD) is the black error screen displayed by some operating systems after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down.