Blue Screen of death (BSOD) disappears before I can read it!
Unfortunately the blue screen of death (BSOD) is a fact of life on Windows computers.
By default, Windows is configured to automatically restart when one occurs. Why this is I don’t know? Surely if your computer is sick you would think that it would want to tell you what is causing the problem rather than flashing up and disappearing just as fast. If this has ever happened to you before you will know exactly how frustrating this can be!
Luckily there is something that you can do about it! To disbale the auto restart setting follow these steps:
- Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System
- Click on “Advanced” button
- Under the Startup and Recovery section, click “Settings”
- Under System Failure un-check “Automatically restart”
After you have done this Windows may ask you to restart the computer for settings to take effect. Next time (hopefully never) your computer decides to spit out a BSOD it should stay on the screen, giving you plenty of time to write down the error messages.
You can also use the Event Viewer to check previous BSOD’s but that is for another day!
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This solution assumes that you can boot to the desktop. Is there an alternative solution when the Blue Screen prevents the boot process?
As far as I know, the only way to pause a BSOD is by applying the above changes while Windows is working. If the BSOD is happening before Windows loads you could try entering Safe Mode by continuously hitting the F8 key at startup.
It is very likely that you have a hardware issue. If you recently installed any new hardware I would remove that as a test to see if you can boot without a BSOD. If that doesn’t apply, you can download some hardware diagnostic software from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com to test your RAM and hard drive – these are the most likely offenders.
Good luck with it, feel free to post any follow ups and I will try to clarify things more.