What kind of computer do you have?

I have a friend who has Vista installed on a laptop,
and his computer was doing something similar.
A plain blue screen, and then he'd have to do a hard
restart. I believe his issue was some type of overheating.
He had a habit of sitting his laptop flat on his desk instead
of it being slightly elevated for better air flow. He bought
something to prop it up and also some compressed air to clean
the laptop's ventilation areas. He said the first time he sprayed
the back of the laptop an amazing amount of dust came shooting
out the vent. That plain blue screen has stopped occurring, and
he's amazed at how much quieter his laptop is, the fan doesn't run
all the time and when it does it is usually at the lower speed.

If heat is not the issue, maybe it's a video driver or one of your
RAM sticks is sick.


-Michael

* Jack:
> after about 10 minutes of my computer running it powers off, there is no
> warning, for about 1 second i get a blue screen, then its like there is a
> power cut and it just cuts out, then when i start my computer back up i
> checked the log and all it says is "OS stopped working"
> please if you have any info i would be greatful
> thanks