What does BSOD 61442 (SAVER_BLANKSCREEN) mean?

 
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SAVER_UNSPECIFIED SAVER_INPUT

SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

SAVER blank-screen bucket for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

SAVER_BLANKSCREEN is bug check code 0x0000F002. This SAVER value suggests that the observed failure involved a blank or non-rendering shell/display surface. It should be diagnosed through graphics, shell, session, and app-model state rather than treated as a classic display-driver stop code.

How to read it in a dump for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

  • Treat the value as an internal Windows diagnostic bucket, not as a classic blue-screen stop code with public parameters.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, the process name, module list, event-log record, and WER bucket are more important than the symbolic name alone.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, if a dump exists, check whether it is a live dump, app-model dump, or kernel bug check triggered for diagnostic capture.

What to check for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

  • Preserve the dump and WER report before repeatedly rebooting or clearing logs.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, correlate the bucket with shell, app model, graphics, input, resource, or service-host events.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, use the code as a routing clue; root cause still depends on the stack and provider-specific telemetry.

References for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

Dump evidence for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, preserve the complete dump, the four bug-check parameters, the exact Windows build, loaded-module list, and the event timeline immediately before the stop. AllStat summarizes the condition as “SAVER_BLANKSCREEN”; that sentence identifies the failure class, while the parameters and stack determine which object, driver, processor, or subsystem instance was involved.

Analysis order for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

  • Run WinDbg !analyze -v, then inspect the documented meaning of each SAVER_BLANKSCREEN parameter instead of relying only on the probably-caused-by line.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, find the earliest abnormal event: driver update, firmware change, device reset, storage error, verifier report, resource exhaustion, or application hang connected with saver / blankscreen.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, keep third-party filter, security, storage, graphics, and virtualization drivers in the module inventory; removing evidence before dump analysis can obscure the responsible path.

Do not repeatedly reboot a machine affected by SAVER_BLANKSCREEN before collecting the dump and event logs. For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, recovery actions should follow the component identified by the stack and parameters, not merely the symbolic stop-code name.

Dump evidence for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, preserve the complete dump, the four bug-check parameters, the exact Windows build, loaded-module list, and the event timeline immediately before the stop. AllStat summarizes the condition as “SAVER_BLANKSCREEN”; that sentence identifies the failure class, while the parameters and stack determine which object, driver, processor, or subsystem instance was involved.

Analysis order for SAVER_BLANKSCREEN

  • Run WinDbg !analyze -v, then inspect the documented meaning of each SAVER_BLANKSCREEN parameter instead of relying only on the probably-caused-by line.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, find the earliest abnormal event: driver update, firmware change, device reset, storage error, verifier report, resource exhaustion, or application hang connected with saver / blankscreen.
  • For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, keep third-party filter, security, storage, graphics, and virtualization drivers in the module inventory; removing evidence before dump analysis can obscure the responsible path.

Do not repeatedly reboot a machine affected by SAVER_BLANKSCREEN before collecting the dump and event logs. For SAVER_BLANKSCREEN, recovery actions should follow the component identified by the stack and parameters, not merely the symbolic stop-code name.

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