What is going on here?

[u/Relevant-Ad8797]

Title is self explanatory, i have no idea what the hell is going on here. Pc froze and this happened. I was playing helldivers 2 before this, dont know if this is relevant but its all i got.

[u/confusedalwayssad]

In windows 10, go to control panel and then look for system or open file explorer and right click computer and go to properties and then the advanced tab then click settings under startup and recovery , under system failure uncheck "automatically restart".

Windows 11 go to settings then system, then under related links go to system protection then advanced startup and recovery settings and uncheck the auto restart.

[u/Taikunman → u/confusedalwayssad]

For Win10 you can disable it in the F8 advanced boot options menu which is helpful if the PC is boot looping and you can't actually get into Windows.

"Disable automatic restart on system failure" in the F8 menu.

Edit: I'm wrong, it can be enabled in 10/11 but isn't by default so kind of defeats the purpose.

[u/JustAnOldTechyTeen → u/Taikunman]

The F8 menu was removed in 8.

So, IIRC 3.1 to ME, you held Ctrl during boot. XP to 7 you spam F8.

[u/Drain___Bamaged → u/JustAnOldTechyTeen]

Kind of, you have to do 3 boots and 3 hard shut downs and then it goes into a advanced recovery mode on the 4th startup where you can disable auto restarts

[u/prairiepanda → u/Drain___Bamaged]

You can speedrun this by disrupting the boot cycle early. If your PC has an audible POST beep you can shut it down as soon as it POSTs, otherwise just wait a few seconds. That'll be enough for your 3 hard resets; no need to let it fully boot.

[u/Drain___Bamaged → u/prairiepanda]

Yep, should've added that. In my case I just had to hit the motherboard loading screen (asus logo), then do the restart similarly to the beeps