my computer keeps crashing

[Dana Bard]

my computer keeps crashing to blue screen when i play second life but i can't read it since it is stuck on auto reboot

someone help me

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

Blue screens are caused either by a hardware error or a driver error. There could be a million causes but there are some common ones. Bad memory, graphics card getting too hot and capacitors blowing on either on the mother board or the graphics card, which is also a heat related problem. If it is a driver it would probably be something you recently installed. 

So the first easy thing to do is to make sure that the air flow to your computer isn't being blocked.

To stop the system restarting so that you can see the error message.

Control Panel / System / Advanced Settings / Advanced tab / Settings and deselect Automatically restart.

some of that may be a bit different depending on your windows version.

Or you can do it from the registry

System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl]
Value Name: AutoReboot
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

The error message may or may not be helpful. Try googleing it.

What may be more useful is to download bluescreenview from: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html.

It all looks very complicated but when you start it up it will automatically load the latest dump file. In the top panel look under Caused By Driver and in the lower panel look in the second column, Address In Stack and it will tell you the drivers that may have caused the error or the hardware that they are driving that has a problem.

If you want to edit your post with more information please open your viewer, you don't have to log in, go to Help/About and copy the information displayed there using the copy button and paste it in your post.

 

 

 

 

[Qie Niangao]

You might also get some hints from Windows' "Reliabiity Monitor" about what caused previous crashes.