BLUE SCREEN THEN RESTART

Hi, I've recently upgraded my XP media centre (MCE2005) to Vista Home
Premium. Upgrade was relatively uneventful, all settings transfered OK, got
the channels and EPG all set up OK in VMC. Now.....every now and then,
totally randomly it would seem, while I'm watching TV or a recorded show, the
screen goes blue with white writing all over it, then the machine re-boots.
I don't get time to read what is on the blue screen before it re-boots. Is
their an error log within Windows I can look at the see what the error was,
or what caused it?

camshep wrote:
> Hi, I've recently upgraded my XP media centre (MCE2005) to Vista Home
> Premium. Upgrade was relatively uneventful, all settings transfered
> OK, got the channels and EPG all set up OK in VMC. Now.....every now
> and then, totally randomly it would seem, while I'm watching TV or a
> recorded show, the screen goes blue with white writing all over it,
> then the machine re-boots. I don't get time to read what is on the
> blue screen before it re-boots. Is their an error log within Windows
> I can look at the see what the error was, or what caused it?
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Maybe the Event Viewer would be useful:

Windows Vista
Event Viewer How To...
http://tinyurl.com/3dje54

Event Viewer Overview
http://tinyurl.com/394kmx

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Your system is set to automatically restart after a crash. If you don't want
it to do that, then go to Start, right click Computer, select Properties,
Advanced System Settings, Continue, then select Startup and Recovery
Settings. You should see several options, one of which is to Automatically
restart. Uncheck the box if you do not want it to restart on a crash.

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"camshep" <camshep@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A98FFC66-81D4-46F5-AC04-F4295C61E18E@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I've recently upgraded my XP media centre (MCE2005) to Vista Home
> Premium. Upgrade was relatively uneventful, all settings transfered OK,
> got
> the channels and EPG all set up OK in VMC. Now.....every now and then,
> totally randomly it would seem, while I'm watching TV or a recorded show,
> the
> screen goes blue with white writing all over it, then the machine
> re-boots.
> I don't get time to read what is on the blue screen before it re-boots.
> Is
> their an error log within Windows I can look at the see what the error
> was,
> or what caused it?

Many thanks Gents, I'll check the Event Viewer and change the setting so it
doesn't re-start. Thanks again,

"Gary G. Little" wrote:

> Your system is set to automatically restart after a crash. If you don't want
> it to do that, then go to Start, right click Computer, select Properties,
> Advanced System Settings, Continue, then select Startup and Recovery
> Settings. You should see several options, one of which is to Automatically
> restart. Uncheck the box if you do not want it to restart on a crash.
>
> --
> The personal opinion of
> Gary G. Little
>
> "camshep" <camshep@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A98FFC66-81D4-46F5-AC04-F4295C61E18E@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I've recently upgraded my XP media centre (MCE2005) to Vista Home
> > Premium. Upgrade was relatively uneventful, all settings transfered OK,
> > got
> > the channels and EPG all set up OK in VMC. Now.....every now and then,
> > totally randomly it would seem, while I'm watching TV or a recorded show,
> > the
> > screen goes blue with white writing all over it, then the machine
> > re-boots.
> > I don't get time to read what is on the blue screen before it re-boots.
> > Is
> > their an error log within Windows I can look at the see what the error
> > was,
> > or what caused it?
>
>
>