Bluescreen and memory dump.

[Cura]

Greetings Windows Vista Community.

I've been using Windows Vista Ultimate for about a half year now and i keep
getting bluescreens. I am uncertain of the reason and i don't know how i open
the .mdmp files that are left in the folder of the program that crash my
comptuer. Some time ago, vista actually solved the problem and said something
about my RAM being in conflict with my motherboard or processor. My system
specs are:

Core 2 Quad Processor
GFORCE 8800 GTS
4000 ram of unknown type.

If someone can tell me how to extract more information about the bluescreens
i'll post them here.

Thanks for your help, and sorry for the insufficient information and bad
spelling.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

If you are referring to the minidump files, you can send the most recent one
or two to me at (e-mail address removed) using a subject line of 'per req'. To get
details from them, you need a debugging tool. I'll see if they contain any
useful information about the crashes.

Do you happen to know if the stop error (blue screen message) is the same
every time? Any commonality to when it fails? Like during a certain
application use?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Cura]

Okay, i've sent one of the minidumps to you. And yes, the bluescreen is the
same every time. I'm unsecure about where the mdmp files are stored but
they're often stored in the program which was runing at the moment of
bluescreen impact.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

The crash stems from a file called steam.exe, and the most common form of it
I can find is used in a game called Half-life. You may want to check with
the game vendor for any needed upgrades or patches.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Cura]

I think that implies that steam was the program was running at the time of
the crash. The bluescreen appears many times with different programs.
Sometimes Half-Life sometimes Firefox And even winamp. Basically it isn't the
program which causes the crash it's my pc. I can only find the mdmp files
from the programs i know was running at the time of the crash.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Check under C:\Windows\minidump for a system dump file.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Can you start your computer? If not can you start it in Safe Mode?