Bluescreen of Death - Prevent Auto Reboot

[Mike Schumann]

I just had encountered the Blue Screen of Death on my Windows XP laptop.
The computer immediately rebooted, so I couldn't read the stop message.

How can I prevent the computer from automatically rebooting so I can read
the messages?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Have a look in the Event Viewer for any 'Errors'.

If you don't see any error messages, right click on My Computer, select
Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on Settings under Startup and
Recovery and disable 'Automatically restart'. Next time your PC reboots,
you should see a Blue Screen. Could you please post the Stop Code that
accompanies that BSOD back here? With that your problem could be isolated.

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[Guest]

During boot press F8 repeatedly, this will bring up the advanced startup
options, select safemode. when in safemode right click My computer and select
properties, select the advance tab, click settings under startup and
recovery, uncheck the box that says automatically restart. then reboot
normally. I hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Mike

If you have Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed on your computer.
You can enter the Advanced Options Menu (To do this, as your computer starts,
tap the F8 Key until you are prompted for the "Windows Advanced Options
Menu") and then choose the option to "Disable automatic restart on system
failure".

You can also do the same in Windows by Right Clicking on My Computer and
clicking on Properties. Clicking on the Advanced Tab, and Clicking the
"Settings" button under the "Startup and Recovery" frame.

In here you should see a checkbox for "Automatic" restart under System
Failure.


With these steps completed, your computer will now stop at any blue screen
errors and you can continue to troubleshoot the issue.

Hope this was helpful.

Thanks.
Robert A Janes
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Bruce Chambers]

During boot press F8 repeatedly, this will bring up the advanced startup
options, select safemode. when in safemode right click My computer and select
properties, select the advance tab, click settings under startup and
recovery, uncheck the box that says automatically restart. then reboot
normally. I hope this helps

There's no need to reboot into Safe Mode to change this setting.

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[Guest]

Hi Bruce,

Whenever I have come across a Blue screen error, it has prevented me from
booting normally, so there for I thought that all blue screens prevent the OS
from booting normally, that is why my advice was to boot into safemode to
access the startup and recovery options in the system properties.

 

[Tim Judd]

Hi Bruce,

Whenever I have come across a Blue screen error, it has prevented me from
booting normally, so there for I thought that all blue screens prevent the OS
from booting normally, that is why my advice was to boot into safemode to
access the startup and recovery options in the system properties.

There are two timeframes any Windows OS will bluescreen.

First, it is when windows is trying to boot. My experience in the field
has taught me, that if it bluescreens before a user's desktop is shown,
a good 60-80% of the time you'll have to do major work to <TRY> to get
windows booting again. maybe it just needs a chkdsk /r -- maybe it
needs a service disabled... but a high percentage is gonna need
reinstallation.

Second, is after windows displays any user's desktop -- now it's a (3rd
party) applications software and/or driver issue that can cause the
problem. The bluescreens after a desktop load can normally be resolved
99-100% of the time, you just gotta know what would cause it.

Depending on the OPs period when it bluescreens, you may be able to fix,
might not.

I wish him/her luck, BSODs are SOBs when you try to figure them out.

C ya.