Another Blue Screen of death on a digital signage screen. It’s inevitable but are digital signage network operators monitoring their systems?
Blue Screen of Death
FAIL FEATURES
Windows (yes it only happens with Windows) Blue Screen of Death – Not the prettiest blue screen
The system didn’t automatically restart. The screens inside the store also had the same probelm
SUGGESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS
Sometimes in this situation there’s not much you can do except to power the system down and start it up again.
There are now technologies that allow you to remotely power off a device via the network
There are tools that will allow you to analyse the crash dump and determine what could have caused the problem. If you are interested on how to analyise the crash dump then have a read of this Microsoft Page: How to read the small memory dump file that is created by Windows if a crash occurs
Check to make sure Automatically Restart after System failure is selected in the Windows Advanced Startup and Recovery
Click on Start, Right click Computer and then click properties
Computer Properties
Select Advanced System Settings
Advanced System settings
Click on the Advanced Tab and click settings in Startup and recovery
windows system properties
Make sure Automatically restart is selected in System failure
startup and recovery
Please also include the FAIL FEATURES and SUGGESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS
NOTE: We will not be naming any companies/businesses or the location of where the photo’s were taken but we just want to highlight what went wrong, possible ways to remedy the problem and how to possibly avoid the same issue.
Article Source: http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2014/04/25/digital-signage-fail-another-blue-screen/
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