These occur as a result of NMI interrupts caused by a variety of hardware or software issues.
In mac, it is called the Spinning Pinwheel of Death (SPoD).
Causes
- Faulty component (RAM, HDD, GPU)
- Hardware incompatibility
- Buggy Device Driver
- Buggy software
- Bad windows update
- BIOS/UEFI issues
- Power Supply Unit problems
- Malware
- File system errors