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Comment from peter clarke on 2009-11-06

2009-11-06T18:29:04Z

the blue email addresses on my address book will not print...help!!!what do I do?????

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Comment from Gary on 2009-01-03

2009-01-04T03:03:34Z

A proactive measure for dealing with the BSOD is to disable automatic starting in control panel, system, advanced tab, and in the startup and recovery section select settings, and under system failure uncheck automatically restart.

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Comment from chris faulkner on 2008-11-27

2008-11-27T11:43:07Z

just had a need to find out the bsod message, what you do is hit f8 just before the windows logo comes up, you should get a menu of start choices, select the one which says something like disable automatic restart on system failure, this will hold your blue screen message.
If you dont get that option from the menu hit 'start windows normally' then immediately hit f8, you should then get another choices menu which this time will show the disable auto restart.
On another computer type your error message into google, you will get lots of info.

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Comment from Eli Coten on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T22:01:35Z

Very often these errors are reported in the Windows System event log as "Save Dump" or "System Failure" and the error codes are available from there.

Additionally there is a program that you can download called Windbg, which can be used to examine the crashdump files (saved in Windows\Minidump folder) which will tell you which error occured and a guess as to what caused the error.

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Comment from Doug on 2008-11-24

2008-11-24T16:45:13Z

These articles came up for me today...

http://www.cockeyed.com/lessons/camera/camera_tricks.php

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_print_or_capture_the_information_from_a_blue_screen_error.html

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/11/22/20081122nakedmcdonalds-offbeat.html

Thought you'd find the coincidence humorous.

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Comment from Chris Buechler on 2008-11-23

2008-11-24T01:13:39Z

Recording what it shows on the screen via any method is of limited use. The number following "STOP" will tell you the general cause, but not remotely enough information to find the specific cause. Generally it's a driver problem, and that's all the STOP code will tell you. You might have 60+ drivers on your system - which is it? You need to configure your system to leave at least a minidump file so you have something worthwhile to analyze after the reboot. That'll tell you more specifics about what happened, otherwise you can't possibly find the resolution.

Lots of info out there on debugging blue screens, here's one place to start.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

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