blue screen of death

[sentmemail]

Hi,
my windows 2000 machine often has blue screen of death.
How can i restart this machine remotely when blue screen of death occurs?
thanks

 

[MrChad]

Under System Properties in Control Panel, go to Advanced / Startup and Recovery and check "Automatically restart" under System Failure. You can run the memory dump (.dmp) file through Windows Debugger to help determine what is causing the blue screen.

 

[sentmemail]

will the system Automatically restart if the blue screen is encountered during the process of OS starting up?

Originally posted by: MrChad
Under System Properties in Control Panel, go to Advanced / Startup and Recovery and check "Automatically restart" under System Failure. You can run the memory dump (.dmp) file through Windows Debugger to help determine what is causing the blue screen.

 

[dclive]

Yep, if the auto-restart option is checked.

 

[sentmemail]

you are wrong. the server will not restart itself it the blue screen is encountered during startup

Originally posted by: dclive
Yep, if the auto-restart option is checked.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: sentmemail
you are wrong. the server will not restart itself it the blue screen is encountered during startup

Originally posted by: dclive
Yep, if the auto-restart option is checked.

Of course it will - if the auto-restart option is checked. The machine goes into what is essentially an endless reboot loop. If you're seeing differently, you don't have the auto-restart option checked.

Here's more info on the details: http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;174630

 

[sentmemail]

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: sentmemail
you are wrong. the server will not restart itself it the blue screen is encountered during startup

Originally posted by: dclive
Yep, if the auto-restart option is checked.

Of course it will - if the auto-restart option is checked. The machine goes into what is essentially an endless reboot loop. If you're seeing differently, you don't have the auto-restart option checked.

Here's more info on the details: http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;174630

it does not restart endlessly, but it just hang at the blue screen during startup

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: sentmemail

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: sentmemail
you are wrong. the server will not restart itself it the blue screen is encountered during startup

Originally posted by: dclive
Yep, if the auto-restart option is checked.

Of course it will - if the auto-restart option is checked. The machine goes into what is essentially an endless reboot loop. If you're seeing differently, you don't have the auto-restart option checked.

Here's more info on the details: http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;174630

it does not restart endlessly, but it just hang at the blue screen during startup

So it sounds like auto-restart is turned off. You can confirm that by looking in the GUI (see the second post for info on that) and then confirming that by going into your registry. Go to HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/CrashControl and confirm that the AutoReboot value is 1.

 

[djpolstee]

If you're getting the BSOD that much, I think that it's time for a wipe and reinstall. Hope everything's backed up.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: djpolstee
If you're getting the BSOD that much, I think that it's time for a wipe and reinstall. Hope everything's backed up.

And if the same drivers are put back, it's likely the same issue will resurface. Let's fix it this time, now.