Windows 10: Windows 10 blue screens only when I am out of the room

I have had Windows 10 spontaneously reboot on me quite a few times since I upgraded to it on my laptop not long ago, and it's happened three times in the last 24 hours. Unfortunately it always happens when I am out of the room, making tea. This means that I never get to see the blue screen with its error message, and it also means that I am obviously not doing anything to the computer in the time before it crashes which I could say might be the cause of the crash. In other words I don't have the slightest clue what is going on. Is there any way I can get useful information to help diagnose these crashes? For instance is there a way to delay the restart so that I get time to read the error message?

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After upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10 and Nvidia releasing new drivers in late February I experienced the blue screen..

After fixing the one driver for the keyboard has corrected the blue screen of death. The only issue I have had since has to do with Win 10, Win Defender and both wanting to be annoying. Other than that I had my PC reboot when I wasn't in the room so I
am uncertain what that had been about.

 

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while installing windows 10 on my pc I left the room. when I came back my screen is a dark blue and won't respond to keyboard or mouse. anyone else encounter this?

 

If there is nothing in the event viewer you could try going to NirSoft - freeware utilities: password recovery, system utilities, desktop utilities and downloading AppCrashView which when run will give a list of any apps etc that have crashed in the past and you will see there is a useful description in each report that may help you pinpoint why your computer is crashing.

 

Uncheck Automatically restart and select to create Automatic memory dump.

BSOD Minidump - Configure to Create in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks for your replies! I unchecked "automatically restart", as suggested, and discovered that the culprit was the Lenovo power management driver. I believe that this is connected to the screensaver in some way, which possibly explains why it only crashed when I wasn't using the computer.