Hooold the phone folks. We are jumping to some drastic conclusions here, and the answer is simple.
Ever notice how you don't get blue screens of death with Windows XP? Microsoft changed things around so that in situations when you would normally get a BSOD (like a hardware conflict or file allocation table failure), your computer just restarts without another word.
If you want it so XP actually gives you a blue screen, and tells you the memory address where things went wrong (then you can get help using the message
here)
1. Right click on the My Computer icon and choose Properties.
2. When you see the System Properties, click on "Advanced" tab"
3. In the Startup and Recovery portion, click on Settings.
4. By default, "Automatically Restart" is enabled. Uncheck it.