As computer users, you may encounter many problems during the daily use, especially system crash. Sometimes the crash occurred with no indication, and then it caused prodigious loss. So to backup and restore your system is a best choice.
This article will tell you what may cause system crash and how to restore system if it crashed.
1. Hardware conflict:
The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device. If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both devices at the same time, a crash may happen.
2. Bad Ram:
Ram (random-access memory) problems might bring on the blue screen of death with a message saying Fatal Exception Error. A fatal error indicates a serious hardware problem. Sometimes it may mean a part is damaged and need to be replaced. Also a fatal error caused by Ram might be caused by a mismatch of chips.
3. Mistaken BIOS settings:
Every motherboard is supplied with a range of chipset settings that are decided in the factory. A common BIOS error concerns the CAS latency which refers to the Ram. Older EDO (extended data out) Ram has a CAS latency of 3. Newer SD Ram has a CAS latency of 2. Wrong figure setting may cause the Ram to lock up and freeze the computer's display.
4. Hard disk drives overload:
After a few weeks, the information on a hard disk drive starts to become piecemeal or fragmented. It is a good idea to defragment the hard disk every week or so, to prevent the disk from a screen freeze. Hard disks will also slow down and crash if be stuffed with too much data.
5. Viruses attack:
The first sign of a virus infection is instability. Some viruses will erase the boot sector of a hard drive to cause a start failure. This is why it is a good idea to create a start-up disk in case of such situation.
6. Software conflict:
A common cause of computer crash is faulty or badly-installed software, as well as the incompatible problem among software. Most of the time, such kind of problem can be solved by uninstalling the software and then reinstalling it or remove references of the program in the System Registry by other tools.
7. Power supply problems :
Unstable voltage or abrupt power failure can cause a computer crash easily.
If it is a headache for you then an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) which provides a stable power supply might be a good choice for you. UPS will give you a few minutes to perform a normal shutdown.
System crash reasons mentioned above are just some typical ones. To reduce the system crash or data loss, we highly recommend you to backup the system. Here we would like to recommend free system backup and restore software - EASEUS Todo Backup. Once there is something wrong with your system, just run system restore function. Besides, this free backup software also provide some other functions to backup partition or disk, transfer data, see more features…
If the system crashed and you cannot access the system, you can use the bootable disk to restore system with the previous backup image. Since you may not see the drive letters with the bootable CD. If you are not sure about the partitions, we suggest you assign a label to each partition before restoring system partition from bootable CD/DVD.
1. Put the bootable CD in to the CD-ROM, press "Del" when you restart computer to enter the BIOS, change your BIOS settings and set CD-ROM as first boot device, press "F10" to save and exit.
2. Boot from EASEUS Todo Backup and choose the right screen resolution. If the computer restarts after you choose a screen resolution. Please try other one.
3. Click ‘Restore’ in central place or ‘Operation’ > ‘Restore’ from menu bar to run ‘Restore Data Wizard’.
4. In this step, you need to select the backup image you want to restore. Once you select an image, our product will show the comments and partition(s) contained in this image. Click "Next".
Note: If there is a password when you create this image, you need to input the password firstly.
5. Select the partition of the image you want to restore. Click "Next".
6. Choose the crashed system partition.
Note: If you restore to your target partition, all the data on the target partition will be destroyed and cannot be recovered.
7. Select a partition type for the restored partition.
8. Specify the size and location.
9. The operation is listed. You may check again whether the operation is correct or not, click "Process" to perform restore or "Cancel" to give up.
10. After all these steps, you will successfully restore system partition. Click Finish and turn off the computer, take out the bootable CD from CD-ROM and reboot.
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