Blue Screen horror

[Rockabye]

Twice recently my computer has crashed in the middle of copying discs, followed by the appearance a blue screen which then reboots automatically. I have never seen it before - has anyone else? Many thanks

[jmet]

Welcome to the Digital Digest Video forum Rockabye!

Sounds as if your computer might be over heating. Take the sides of the case off, take a can of compressed air and blow it out (I personally use a air compressor). Make sure you blow all the fans and the CPU heatshrink. Now with the side of the case off, go ahead and start up your computer like you normally would. Run DVD Shrink, and see if you get that "Blue Screen of Death" error message again.

[Chewy]

I have seen that blue screen(if I watch closely) far too many times
recently, the heat issue is one cause, shrink and hardware configuration
were the cause of mine. just depends(less).
If it is heat then blow a fan into the side of the case.

[Rockabye]

Many thanks for the advice. There is no sign of over-heating. The hardware has been well tested in the workshop and no faults were found, so it could be Shrink. But I'm not sure how to re-configure it.

[alienfinder]

Twice recently my computer has crashed in the middle of copying discs, followed by the appearance a blue screen which then reboots automatically. I have never seen it before - has anyone else? Many thanksI got the BSOD when I was using nero while it was burning a dvd

[Chewy]

Many thanks for the advice. There is no sign of over-heating. The hardware has been well tested in the workshop and no faults were found, so it could be Shrink. But I'm not sure how to re-configure it.

Unless it was tested with a very heavyduty app like shrink, it might be
configured wrong in bios. Shrink 3.2 uses 95-100% of the available
cpu. That's a lot, recently I monitored it using 150 megs of ram.