Quickly Solve - Your PC Ran into a Problem and Needs to Restart

Sometimes when booting your PC, you see a blue screen which tells that your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. If you try to reboot again, the same screen. This issue is called BSOD (blue screen error of death) as shown below:

If you have no idea what to do when seeing this error message, don’t worry, for you may get some clue after reading this short article.

What Caused This Error?

To be honest, it is hard to tell the specific reason that brings blue screen error of death. Usually, your PC ran into a problem Windows 10 is caused by a hardware issue or hardware driver issue. and when Windows encounters a “stop error”, Windows keeps crashing and you get a blue screen.

It is funny that Windows points you to restart, but you keep receiving the same blue screen. To be serious, the BSOD error can bring you data loss. Hence, it is urgent to recover lost data as well as find a way to fix this issue.

Fix Your PC Ran into a Problem and Needs to Restart

You have a try on these solutions one by one, and we hope you never go to the last one.

Fix 1. Remove External Hardware

Believe it or not, sometimes the blue screen is simply caused by malfunctioning external hard drives (removable disks). If there is, just disconnect them and then try to reboot.

Fix 2. Update the Drivers

To do this, you need professional driver update tools to help you. just search the internet and find a reliable one. Then follow its official guide to update your hardware drivers.

Fix 3. Remove Recently Installed Applications

Enter Windows 10 Safe Mode, check and uninstall the programs that are installed recently. Please recall what programs you installed recently and then your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. When you are in the Safe Mode, go to the Control Panel and remove the suspect applications.

Fix 4. Return Hardware Settings to Default

Non-default hardware settings have been known to cause a blue screen of death. Unless you have a specific reason to make some changes, hardware configured to use in Device Manager should be set to default.

Fix 5. Return BIOS Settings to Default Levels

A misconfigured BIOS can cause all sorts of random issues, including BSOD error. To check it out, return your BIOS settings to default levels and reboot.

However, if all the suggestions here do not help, you need to perform a system image recovery or a Windows 10 reinstallation. But before you start, you have to get some key files saved in the system partition. Here you can sue MiniTool Power Data Recovery to help you. For the details, read How to Recover Data When PC Won't Boot.

When you have recovered important files to a safe location, you can perform the system restore or reinstall Windows 10. And this guide shows you how to perform Windows 10 installation.