5punk

I have a PC that Blue Screens when it gets to Windows (XP).. unfortunately it's been set to reboot at fail so I don't get a chance to read what the BSOD is picking up.. anyone know of a Reg Hack or something that will horse it to keep the BSOD on screen long enough for me to see what has caused it??

can you get to safe mode? press F8 at the start of it booting

Tried that... still BSOD's and reboots, doing a DiskScan at the moment for any bad sectors but it would be usefull if I could se what the BSOD actually said, may be corrupt regisrty hive or something so don't want to waste my time loking for a hardware fault if it's the software thats corrupted.

If you can stick the hard drive in another machine, %systemroot%\memory.dmp or %systemroot%\minidump\ should tell you the cause of the BSOD.

F8 key to enter Windows Advance Options Menu.
Sselect "Disable automatic restart on system failure".

While looking for a piccie of this I came across this troubleshooting guide on another forum. Looks whin so gonna add it to the wiki