Keith (Southend) wrote:
My memory lets me down everytime.

I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never
read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error.
The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How
do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to
not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated.

Thanks

Right clicking on your drive C:\ and clicking on properties will bring
up this box. Click check now and reboot as it won't scandisk an "opened"
drive. Repeat this for all your drives if you have more than one.

Also Look in your event log. Usually Windows will dump the blue screen
into the event log. The information that you're looking for is the Stop
Code. It looks like this: 0x00000000
0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000. then you can google it or
trawl the m$ pages.

Checking a drive: http://llandru.servehttp.com/image2.jpg

Les

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