short BSOD on my XP laptop, should i worry?

Barcardi

Ok, I have a laptop that is 3 years old, I do a full reformat about once a year on it. Lately I have only been using it for watching netflix streaming, which is what I was using it for last night for about 4-5 hours or so. This morning I boot it up and before it even gets to the windows XP loading screen it blue screen of deaths on me, then resets, then starts up normally. The only other time this happened was after some heavy rendering use about 6 months ago.

Should something like this worry me? Is there any way to prevent BSOD in the future? Is another reformat in order, would that even fix BSOD snowballing on this laptop?

TL DR

Look in the Event Log.

Barcardi

How do i go about doing that?

edit: nm looking up and posting

Barcardi

The event log only has one error and a some system warnings at the time of the BSOD, all of which only relate to (example):

Event Type: Error
Event Source: crypt32
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 10/2/2010
Time: 12:43:41 PM
User: N/A
Computer: JASONSLAPTOP
Description:
Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cab&gt; with error: The data is invalid.


For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

What should I be looking for, what application information? Also would this stuff even be registering from when the BSOD happened, ie right before even the windows start up screen?

Buttcleft

I wouldnt worry about it right now. Looks like windows update just glitched out trying to do a update of third party software, driver maybe?

the odd bsod isnt really anything to worry about, if you get another one or more then its time to start worrying