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Quick BSOD flash and restart

volrath

Senior member
This is on Windows XP SP2.

After a very puzzling conflict with a bad PCI 1394 card that I have eliminated, I thought that my aggravating troubles were over, but they are not. I occasionally get a quick Blue Screen Of Death that flashes then reboots my computer. Upon restarting, it tells me that windows recovered from an error, and says click for more info, click for technical info. I got to a log folder, opened manifest.txt, looked like info on a server that it would send the info to. When I went to open the crash log, all the files were gone. I guess windows logs the data, and sends it to Microsoft then deletes it?

The BOSD happened just now when I was doing some web stuff or something. I had Folding@Home and BitTorrent open for the past 24 hours idle with no crashes. It only restarted when I was using it. It also seems to restart a LOT when I use NetBeans 4.0. Never happened with 3.6. It may also happen more when changing priorities of certain processes (NetBeans makes iTunes play choppy, developers deny it, I can't fix it).

How do I get more information on the BSOD that happened and how to fix it?
 
Not sure about the logs, but:
Right click My computer | Properties | Performance Options | Advanced | Startup and Recovery
Change it from "Automatically Reboot" to "do nothing"
(from memory, may be inaccuarate, I don't have an XP box in front of me to check)

Then you'll get to see the BSOD next time.
 
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