Help: Computer crashes on exit from SH3

[johnno74]

Originally Posted by theluckyone17

The BSOD should be listed in the Event Log (assuming WinXP here)... Off the top of my head, go to the Control Panel, open the Administrator's Tools, then the Event Log. You'll be looking in the System category. Might be easier to sort the events by the first column, and look at the red errors. Somewhere there should be an error with the same time as the BSOD occurred, and that'll give you the details.

Darn MS for that default "reboot on a BSOD" behavior...

I wouldn't blame SH3, SH3Commander, FS Autostart, etc. Usually (at least in XP), BSODs tend to be more driver or O/S related than higer level applications.

Quite right, the event log probably has details of the BSOD error. Also, if you get a message "your computer has rebooted from a serious error" after the bsod you can normally click the link to send it to MS and you may get a webpage telling you exactly what caused it. Otherwise If you go properties on my computer -> advanced -> startup and recovery settings and you can disable the automatic reboot, and then you have time to copy the 1st number down.

and theluckyone is also quite right, it won't be sh3 or any other app you are running that is causing the crash. XP is pretty damn stable, my pc at home here gets rebooted only about once a month or so, normally because of an OS patch or something.