lpapirny

when ever i try to shut down my computer it gets outa windows and goes to the black screen but then it flashs a blue screen about dumping physical memroy and then reboots itself and starts again

i know that if i prolly reinstal and format it will prolly fix it but i dont really wanna is there any other ways of fixin this?

TekXoID

What is the blue screen error?

If the screen clears too quickly for you to catch whats said, disable auto-restart in event of system failure.

Right-Click My Computer>System Properties>Advanced Tab>Startup And Recovery Settings>

Under the System Failure section, uncheck Automatically Restart.

lpapirny

Quote: Originally Posted by TekXoID What is the blue screen error? If the screen clears too quickly for you to catch whats said, disable auto-restart in event of system failure. Right-Click My Computer>System Properties>Advanced Tab>Startup And Recovery Settings> Under the System Failure section, uncheck Automatically Restart.

jsut a question but wuts the dealio bout the memory dump thing at the bottom its on small memory dump should i change that ???

aaronrkelly

Quote: Originally Posted by lpapirny jsut a question but wuts the dealio bout the memory dump thing at the bottom its on small memory dump should i change that ???

Nah - the memory dump (I believe) is just for trouble shooting - dumps all contents of memory to a .dmp file that can be analyzed. I could never get anything valuable out of one though.

TekXoID

Quote: Originally Posted by lpapirny jsut a question but wuts the dealio bout the memory dump thing at the bottom its on small memory dump should i change that ???

Small memory dump = dumps any system related changes in the memory to a dump file on the HDD.
You can disable it, I have never gotten any useful information or recoverable data from dumps.

lpapirny

ok thats that
but it still jsut hangs at that screen is there anyway too get it to turn off by its self ???

spazticbusdriver

what do you mean turn it off by its self?

TekXoID

The idea of me telling you how to disable automatic restarts on system failure was to find out what BSOD error you are getting. So, what is it?

lpapirny

Quote: Originally Posted by TekXoID The idea of me telling you how to disable automatic restarts on system failure was to find out what BSOD error you are getting. So, what is it?

all it is
is just a blue screen that says a whole bunch of gobilty goop and stuff that i dont understand like squars and lots of symbols sooo wuts the deal bout this

lpapirny

Quote: Originally Posted by spazticbusdriver what do you mean turn it off by its self?

ok well u know how new computers once u shut them down from windows they usually shut off by them sleves???
mine did that at first but now stopped thas wut i meant just to clear things up

nev_payne

*grolsch advert* shhhhtopp!! this thread hasnt been answered yet! theres been no question of OS model yet, there isnt even a solution! you cant rush these things you know, likes like grolsch - its brewed longer for a fuller taste.

im sorry - adding a little histeria to the topic. If its windows 98 your running, that OS has a obscene problem of not shutting down...ever when a certain problem is reached - some sort of regestry file gone capoot.

go to windows update when ur next online and download the hell out of it. trust me things work so much better. You could also try norton windoctor, running off a norton systemworks CD - I did this on an old system that wud chave taken ages installing it so i ran it off cd to save time - it found 341 problems in 5 areas, and once fixed, the system was so much more stable.

suggest you try that out if you can.

lpapirny

im running XP and i have all the updates needed
so should i still run windoctor?