When your computer reboots itself over and over again

September 16, 2015

Joanne Corrigan Doyle’s six-month-old laptop reboots every few minutes. “Is there anything I can change…to fix this?” Yes and maybe. There’s a setting you can change that will give you at least a hint of the problem. But the hard part starts after you get that hint. So let’s get you to a point where your crashes contain some useful information. [Have a tech question? Ask PCWorld Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector. Send your query to answer@pcworld.com.] Go to the Search tool in your version of Windows, type sysdm.cpl, and select the program of the same name. Click the Advanced tab. Click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery (as opposed to the dialog box’s other two Settings buttons). Uncheck Automatically restart. You might also want to check Write an event to the system log if it’s not already checked. From now on, your system won’t simply reboot when it can’t keep going. Assuming you’re not yet running Windows 10, you’ll get a blue screen filled with intimidating text. Microsoft calls this a Stop Error, but everyone else prefers a more descriptive term: The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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