10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications."

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

1. Hardware conflict


2. Bad Ram


3. BIOS settings


4. Hard disk drives


5. Fatal OE exceptions and VXD errors


6. Viruses


7. Printers


8. Software


9. Overheating


10. Power supply problems