Just before the splash screen shown above appears, or just before your PC automatically restarts, press the F8 key to enter Advanced Boot Options. If you actually are able to enter Windows successfully before the Blue Screen of Death appears, it’s much easier to disable the automatic restart on system failure from within Windows 7 than from the Advanced Boot Options menu, which is the method described in this tutorial. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, highlight Disable automatic restart on system failure and press Enter. Document the hexadecimal number after STOP: plus the four sets of hexadecimal numbers within the parentheses. The most important number is the one listed immediately after STOP:. This is called the STOP Code. In the example shown above, the STOP Code is 0x000000E2. Now that you have the STOP Code associated with the Blue Screen of Death error, you can troubleshoot the problem.
