Noob question about BSOD and checking logs

[thestrangebrew1]

How do I check the logs after a BSOD in windows 7? Totally noob question I know but my stepson said he's been getting a weird blue screen with text and something about a memory dump sporadically when he turns on his pc. Also some weird flickering. It's obviously a BSOD but last night I wasn't able to replicate it when I would fire it up. Where do I look to access logs when troubleshooting? I fig. once I find that I can do some googling on the errors.

The flickering suggested maybe it was a driver issue so I updated his drivers. I was thinking of running memtest tonight to see if it gets back any errors.

His specs are:

1055t
4gb gskill ripjaws
asrock am3 mobo (can't remember the model right now)
650w antec psu
xfx 5770 gpu (with newest drivers)

 

[brett42]

Right-click on My Computer and hit Manage. BSODs show up in System Tools>Event Viewer>Windows Logs>System, I think as 'bugcheck' events. http://aumha.org/a/stop.php is a good first step to finding out what the problem is for a given stop number. Here's a short guide to reading a minidump file to identify the process/driver with problems: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...r-to-troubleshoot-a-blue-screen-of-death/1922 .

 

[mfenn]

WhoCrashed is a pretty nice tool for analyzing the dumps made during the BSOD.