Diagnose a Crashing Computer

Posted: September 14, 2015

[caption id="attachment_12441" align="alignright" width="355"] Image from pcworld.com[/caption] When a computer crashes, it goes through a reboot, which is a standard procedure. However, if the computer keeps crashing and rebooting, there may be an issue. By taking a good hard look at your computer, you may be able to solve the problem, and put a stop to the constant crashing. Lincoln Spector, writer for PC World, shares how to possibly fix a constantly restarting PC.

When your computer reboots itself over and over again

Something is rotten in the state of your Windows PC. Here's how to deal with a computer that keeps rebooting. Yes and maybe. There’s a setting you can change that will give you at least a hint of the problem. But the hard part starts after you get that hint. So let’s get you to a point where your crashes contain some useful information.

1. Go to the Search tool in your version of Windows, type sysdm.cpl, and select the program of the same name.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery (as opposed to the dialog box’s other two Settings buttons).
4. Uncheck Automatically restart.
5. You might also want to check Write an event to the system log if it’s not already checked.

From now on, your system won’t simply reboot when it can’t keep going. Read the entire article When Your Computer Reboots Itself Over and Over Again on PC World.