[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

If your Windows 10/8.1/8 not boots up and gives blue screen with "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart" message, here is how to fix it.

Kapil Arya
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When something is not working correctly due file corruption in Windows, peculiar behavior may be seen. In such cases, PC refuses to boot and throws different kind of Blue or Black Screen of Death (BSOD). Now the corruption may be due to following reasons:

1. A physical hardware, installed driver or third-party extension is causing this issue; and it is repairable by a crash or dump analysis.

2. Second reason may be that you selected some settings that are not correct, or if the system has a lot of data in it and it’s resources are being over used. Additionally, if you’ve used a third-party software that have modified native system files, brutally; may create an issue. These points may be sufficient to cause a file corruption and thus system doesn’t boots up at all.

The error screen due to reasons mentioned in point 2 above is something like this:

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Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We are just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you.

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart
In such a scenario, when we actually don’t know what is causing the problem, we use Automatic or Startup repair. Here is how you can perform Automatic Repair for your Windows 8 or later and fix it to get boot properly:

FIX : ‘Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart’ In Windows 10/8.1/8

1. Plug-in your OS recovery disc that came with the machine and boot the machine. You must see Press any key to boot from CD or DVD… message. So press any key to continue.

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

2. Next, you must see the Windows Setup screen. Select Next option in the following window then:

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

3. Now, click Repair your computer option here:

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

4. In the following screen displayed next, select Troubleshoot.

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

5. Moving on, pick the Advanced options entry here:

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

6. Now in the Advanced options screen shown below, select Startup repair option.

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

7. After selecting Startup Repair, you need to specify the target operating system, do it here:

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

8. Finally, Windows will perform Startup repair and automatically restart itself, when repair completed.

[FIX] Your PC Ran Into A Problem And Needs To Restart

After restarting, your system should boot fine, as usual. In case, if the Startup Repair fails on your system, see following article:

Fix: Your PC did not start correctly in Windows 10

Hope this helps!

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Kapil Arya
11x Microsoft MVP · Admin

Kapil holds Microsoft MVP title in Windows IT Pro expertise, 11-times in a row (2014-2025). He is 8-times Windows Insider MVP as well, and author of 'Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting' book. In 2015, Microsoft India accomplished him as 'Windows 10 Champion'. Being passionate Windows blogger, he loves to help others on fixing their system issues. Kapil has worked with official Microsoft Community Engagement Team (CET) on several community projects. You can subscribe him for news/updates and fixes for Windows.