re: Question about 'When I choose
Friday, May 10, 2002 at 5:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by GS1969
(6 messages posted)
On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 2:49 pm, Barry wrote:
>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.
>
>
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