Re: Intermittent BSOD at startup -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Intermittent BSOD at startup
From: "Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:10:06 -0600
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Next time try <CTRL> + <ALT> + <DEL>

I have seen this and the three finger salute above brings up the task manager. You can go to File - New Task and type in explorer.exe and the boot up will finish. For some reason the boot up fails to start explorer which is needed to provide the desktop, start menu...

Roger Vicker, CCP

On 1/31/2008 2:21 PM, Jeff Crosby arranged the binary bits such that:

No, no. The problem only happens once a week or so. Booting in safe mode
won't tell us anything 'cause we never know when it _might_ happen. When it
_does_ happen, hitting the reset button causes it to boot normally without
any problems.

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