Tecra A3 crashes at windows loadup screen

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help me I have a problem with my laptop I turned it off as normal last night but this morning when I have turned it on it boots as normal gets to the windows loading screen it then a blue screen comes up but i cant read it because the laptop reboots as soon as it appears can anyone please help me?
Thank you.
My laptop its a Toshiba Tecra A3

To view the BSOD screen, you can turn off the automatic restart.
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In the menu, select:
"Disable automatic restart on system failure"
Bad Memory is often the cause of BSOD's, especially when new memory has bee installed but not tested.
You can download Memtest from www.memtest.org . Its a bootable CD or Floppy Disk.

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