Blue Screen of Horrible Death

here's a picture of the bluescreen on from my phone, please don't tell me this is really bad, i only have 90 day warranty, i'm 30 in.
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At the time the only thing running was standard items along with battlefield play for free was installing.

 

I don't know too much about BSOD's but from some quick googling it looks like a hardware failure.

I would just use your warranty

 

I've gotten that particular BSOD a couple of times. I can't remember the circumstances, but it wasn't a hardware failure, despite Google telling me otherwise. Have you updated any drivers lately?

 

The only driver which was updated was the wireless driver which was a modified one for no limit on downloads. But windows update automatically replaced it with the original, which actually could have been it since I was installing the play for free battlefield plug in when it happened. My brother said to check the error logs but i don't know how read them. Since restarting it hasn't come back but that doesn't mean there still wasn't a problem/

 

That's about what happened to me - they just went away. I would suggest rolling back that driver and then reinstalling it, just to be safe. But if you'd had a serious hardware failure you'd probably know. If you have the time/resources you could also run a memory diagnostic such as Memtest86 just to be safe, but I didn't do this.

 

It likely starts with a driver, yeah... That error will come up if you've obviously had some hardware trouble and stuff needs replacing. That being said, if you just updated a driver and only saw the error once, its probably something like just the driver, rolling it back is the best option here.

 

there is a program called Who crashed that may help you figure out what that Blue screen message means and give you a bit of a clue on whats causing it.

you can find that tool at Resplendence Software

once you download it it will install some Debugging Tools from Microsoft and check your system for error logs. make sure you have windows startup and recovery set to kernel memory dump, or better yet full memory dump. but that could eat up a lot of drive space.

I like this little tool as it very simple to use and explains stuff.

make sure you report the error to Microsoft when asked on reboot this is important because if other people like your self are having the same problem Microsoft may look into the problem and force the vender to fix it or fix it them selfs. I've heard it takes 500 reports before they will do that. still worth the try.