Windows 7: Crashing after update - How to check Event Logs?

Question

My desktop appears to be blue screening and restarting after Win7 hard drive installation.

How can I navigate to event viewer in Win 7 and see when was the last time it crashed unexpectedly?

Answer 1

The Event Viewer log you need to look at is Custom Views > Administrative Events, they will be flagged as Error or Critical

These logs won't tell you much about what caused it, look and see if you have a folder in the Windows directory called Minidump, see if there are any .dmp files in there.

C:\Windows\Minidump

You can then use BlueScreenView to look at the dump file

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Answer 2

Assuming the blue screen is not preventing Windows from loading...

Start-->eventvwr.msc

Or, right-click Computer and choose Manage, and then chose Event Viewer in the left pane.