My friends laptop keeps restarting and at boot it presents me with a screen that lets me choose between:

safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode with command prompt
start windows normally
start windows with last known good configuration.

No matter which one of these I choose it goes through the normal windows starting screen (except for the safe mode ones - they do the normal safe mode type of screen) but before it gets to where you enter your password it splashes a quick blue screen with some sort of error message and the laptop reboots so quick I am unable to read what it says. It does this when I choose any of the safe mode options as well.

I don't see anything in the BIOS I could change to affect my situation and my friend doesn't have any windows disks or anything. He has to wait for his father to come home to look and see if there are any.

What can I try on this laptop?