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re: Question about 'When I choose
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 2:49 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Barry
(2 messages posted)
Comment:
okay, this is a common problem, but before you do anything drastic let me tell you
what is happening, and (hopefully) how to fix it.
When most windows systems encounter an error (often as a result of a bad driver)
it will display a blue screen of death (the real name for this is a STOP error).
However when Windows XP encounters an error it will restart itself, rather than "hang"
on the blue screen. To stop windows XP from rebooting all the time, you need to figure
out what is giving XP the error. This is pretty easy:
First things first. You need to change your system properties and un-check the "Automatically
re-start" tab. Don't worry it's easy. To do this click on Control Panel -> System
-> Advanced, then click on the Start-up and Recovery Settings button. Then uncheck
the tab mentioned above.
Okay, this is what you just did: you told your computer that you would rather see
the blue screen of death when you have an error. Your computer will not restart itself
at random times anymore. Rather you will see a blue screen with strange numbers and
information on it. This is pretty important stuff to know if you want your computer
to stop rebooting. You'll have to manually restart your computer, but at least you
will see why your computer has reached an error.
Write down the info and post it on here, then someone can tell you what is going
wrong. And how to fix it so you'll never see the screen again. Often the culprit
is a bad driver. Because XP is still so new, some companies are behind on updating
their drivers, so they don't work really well with XP right now.
Now, here are some pretty good rules of thumb to go by:
If your system reboots when you try to use your modem...you probably have a bad modem
driver.
If your system reboots when you try to use your scanner...you probably have a bad
scanner driver.
You get the idea by now i think.
Just change your system properties so that windows tells you what is wrong rather
than restarting itself, and tell us if you don't understand it, and you'll be off
and running in no time.
By the way, if your system restarts when you try to shut it down you probably have
an error in your shut down procedure. (Or Roxio Burning software:) Try to get the
stop error screen so we can find out why that happens.
On Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 4:43 pm, RUSSELL M. HYSON wrote:
>I have a question about When
>I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my
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