These erroneous blue screen messages can be quite confusing, but very helpful for experienced Windows users for troubleshooting purposes and finding exactly where the problem exists. Unfortunately, BSODs may occur at times only for a split second and then restart your computer, either while your Windows XP operating system is loading or when your computer is shutting down. With this in mind, I would like to refer you to a program called BlueScreenView, which will allow you to view the BSOD messages that your computer is communicating to you.

As you are reading this, you may be wondering to yourself "How do I run this?" because your Windows XP machine cannot get past the BSOD screen for the operating system to fully load. To run BlueScreenView, you will need to use another Windows XP computer with your computer's hard drive running as a slave/secondary drive. When running BlueScreenView, all that you have to do is select the slave/secondary hard drive when the program loads, and you will be able to view all of the BSOD errors that you have been encountering.

Along with displaying the full BSOD image(s), BlueScreenView will also display the files and memory addresses that are associated with the specific BSOD that you have encountered. This makes troubleshooting the issue in question a lot easier so that the functionality of your Windows XP machine can be fully restored.

BlueScreenView is a handy program to have installed, especially if you are frequently installing and testing different hardware in your computer and in other computers as well.