When Windows starts to boot, press F8. >From the list choose "Disable automatic restart on system failure". This is only for that boot! In case of a working system You can disable it permanently this way: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/disautorestart.htm
Best regards, Janos --- On Fri, 2/13/09, Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]> > Subject: [Thinkpad] How to prevent automatic reboots on BSOD? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 6:36 AM > How can I prevent automatic reboots on BSOD? The > &*^% thing immediately reboots and I can't record > the error details. No dump file is created. I have the > option in Startup and Recovery for 'automatically > reboot' cleared. Can I check the registry to see if the > value is actually set? Is there some program I can install > that will catch the blue screen output and send it to a > file? It's gone in less than 1 second - no time to > record it. > > Now I suspect a hardware issue -- crashes occur at random > times with no particular user action or particular software > running. Until about 3 weeks ago, I can recall two crashes > in the previous year. The PC doc hardware test, run from CD > overnight, did not turn up anything other than squawking > about the modem, that seems to be due to no phone line. It > did not save a log file to disk. > > There must be _something_ I can set to stop the automatic > reboots and some reasonable way to fix this issue (I have a > service contract good for another 6 months). > I would prefer not to reformat the disk... but I I can be > certain of being able to restore the current image I could > try it. There's too many hours of installs, software > bought via download without CD, settings, fixing annoyances > etc to casually start over. I do have a spare HD, perhaps I > could load the standard IBM image on that and run it for a > few weeks. > > But there's got to be a better way! > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
