BLUE SCREEN THEN RESTART

[Guest]

Hi, I've recently upgraded my XP media centre (MCE2005) to Vista Home
Premium. Upgrade was relatively uneventful, all settings transfered OK, got
the channels and EPG all set up OK in VMC. Now.....every now and then,
totally randomly it would seem, while I'm watching TV or a recorded show, the
screen goes blue with white writing all over it, then the machine re-boots.
I don't get time to read what is on the blue screen before it re-boots. Is
their an error log within Windows I can look at the see what the error was,
or what caused it?

 

[John Inzer]

Hi, I've recently upgraded my XP media centre (MCE2005) to Vista Home
Premium. Upgrade was relatively uneventful, all settings transfered
OK, got the channels and EPG all set up OK in VMC. Now.....every now
and then, totally randomly it would seem, while I'm watching TV or a
recorded show, the screen goes blue with white writing all over it,
then the machine re-boots. I don't get time to read what is on the
blue screen before it re-boots. Is their an error log within Windows
I can look at the see what the error was, or what caused it?

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Maybe the Event Viewer would be useful:

Windows Vista
Event Viewer How To...
http://tinyurl.com/3dje54

Event Viewer Overview
http://tinyurl.com/394kmx

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John Inzer
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Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Gary G. Little]

Your system is set to automatically restart after a crash. If you don't want
it to do that, then go to Start, right click Computer, select Properties,
Advanced System Settings, Continue, then select Startup and Recovery
Settings. You should see several options, one of which is to Automatically
restart. Uncheck the box if you do not want it to restart on a crash.

 

[Guest]

Many thanks Gents, I'll check the Event Viewer and change the setting so it
doesn't re-start. Thanks again,