Curt Wright said:
What exactly is happening with a workstation that gets the
BSOD and has the message "Beginning a dump of physical
memory"? Also, what can be done to fix a workstation that
has this happen on a regular basis?
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Hi,
Typically, you have a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) during a kernel crash.
What happens during a BSOD depends of the type of blue screen you encounter.
For example if you have a stop 0X0000050 : memory violation access, means
that a process tries to access to a part of memory that is not allocated to
it. To prevent any corruption of the memory and a loose of data the system
stops, generates a blue screen and dump the memory.
The memory dump contains the memory state at the T instant of the crash
(memory violation). The analyse of this dump will permit to see which
process or driver or other kernel object is making this violation.
To fix a computer that regulary has BSOD you have to :
1- Identify with kind of BSOD it is :
Stop 0x00000050
Stop 0x0000001E
Stop 0x0000021A
etc...
Each BSOD is typical of a type of kernel crash
2- Give the dump to be analysed to Microsoft Support for example or have a
look in Microsoft Knowledge base to see if you find similar problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/fh;us?gssnb=1
Note:
Before doing this, what I propose to you is to update your computer:
drivers, service pack, security patches, and other third party application
updates.
In all cases that is enough to make the BSOD to disappear.
Have a nice day
Aurelien Goillot
Microsoft France
