Diagnosing Microsoft Windows XP blue screen

Microsoft Windows Operating system are synonym with the term blue screen of death , or just blue screens. Most technician will prompt the user to format or reinstall microsoft windows xp when the user bring the computer for computer repair.

Sometimes blue screens will occur when computer crashes , and Microsoft Windows will self restart after blue screen appearing for some seconds. This is due to the default settings of Microsoft Windows operating system.

To diagnose blue screen, you must change the default setting of Microsoft Windows XP operating system in System Properties.

1. Right click on My Computer icon on the desktop, and click “Properties”.
2. Choose “Advanced” tab
3. Click on “Settings” in the “Startup and Recovery” section.
4. Go to “System Failure” section , and tick “Write an event to the system log” , untick “Send an administrative alert” , untick “Automatically restart.
5. Click OK.

Now Microsoft Windows XP will write a dump file containing information on blue screens and will not self restart itself everytime blue screens occured during computer crashes.

Everytime blue screens occur, it will display some information on error occured. This informatios are crucial when troubleshooting and computer repair. Most of the blue screens will display error code. You can use this error for a search on the net for troubleshooting and computer repair process.

For example, a blue screens display the error nv4.sys . A quick search on the will show that nv4.sys is a component of Nvidia driver file, so automatically you know that the blue screens is caused by incompatible nvidia driver which is causing a conflict with the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Most of the time, an update of the driver will solved the blue screens problem. This can be apply to most of Microsoft Windows XP blue screens error.