BSOD

[taimatsu]

Argh, I have a computer problem!

I started up my rickety laptop this morning, and it got to the black Windows screen with the little progress bar, and then flashed a blue screen at me and restarted. It has done this repeatedly now. I have started in Safe Mode with Networking, and am hence actually online and functional, but this is plainly not ideal. I have had devce driver issues in the past, so I suspect that is the problem, but I am going to need advice on dealing with it. As a first step, I am looking up how to change the System Failure = Auto-Restart option as it is preventing me actually reading the blue-screen message.

Geeks: What do I do after that?

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

Yep. Since the desktop isn't directly accessible via the internet, I'll set the password to "taimatsu" for now. I'd appreciate it if you changed it though - run a Konsole terminal window (like you'd do to log into chiark) and type "passwd" to change it.

I'll need you to go turn the desktop on first though ;)

[taimatsu]

Desktop now on. I am going to have bath, add some dates to diary, and make a detailed stuff-to-do list before I get to grips with technology any further. :)

Thank you! *kiss*

[diffrentcolours]

I've added the new account for you, so you should be able to just log in when you're back.