In System/Startup and Recovery uncheck "automatically restart"
----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 13:00 Subject: Thinkpad Digest, Vol 65, Issue 18 > Send Thinkpad mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Thinkpad digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. How to prevent automatic reboots on BSOD? (Laurence Spiegel) > 2. Re: How to prevent automatic reboots on BSOD? (Fustos Janos) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:36:09 -0800 (PST) > From: Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]> > Subject: [Thinkpad] How to prevent automatic reboots on BSOD? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > 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! > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:46:25 -0800 (PST) > From: Fustos Janos <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] How to prevent automatic reboots on BSOD? > To: [email protected], Laurence Spiegel > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > 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 > > > End of Thinkpad Digest, Vol 65, Issue 18 > **************************************** > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
