Originally Posted by DonNagual

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2. Check your “Event Log”
As said above, the main cause of system crashes is outdated/corrupt drivers installed.
It can be tricky to find which driver it is that is causing the crashes.
If you are able to boot your computer up, right click on “my computer”, “manage”, “event viewer”.
Here you will find 3 categories and a list of each. Your system reports any errors it encounters here.
You want to search in all three categories and look for any details with a red symbol by them.
Yellow are also significant, but red ones are the ones to research first.

To research them, the best way is to look inside the details provided.
There is a link in there that tells you to “click for more details”. Do it.
It’ll take you to the Microsoft site with some possible causes and solutions.

If the crashes seem related to a particular piece of hardware in your system, that is your hint.
Update the drivers for that hardware and see if that fixes you up.
For example, if you are getting constant error reports for your internet connection, try updating your NIC (network interface card) drivers.

Some other useful links in helping to figure out error codes:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sup..._advanced.aspx
http://www.eventid.net/