Memory Dump

[Guest]

Why does my computer automatically dump my memory? This
happens when ever it feels like doing it. It will be
working fine then all of a sudden, boom memory gets dump.
If anyone has a solution to this please send it to me.
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Paul B T Hodges]

The system is crashing for some reason, either hardware or software.
You should get a blue screen whith the name of the crash type, a group of
codes which all begin with 0x... and perhaps the name of a driver filename
ending in .sys.

By default this screen disappears quite quickly and the system restarts.

go into

control panel/system/advanced/startup and recovery settings

Untick, "Automatically Restart"

Post the information I mentioned above when you get the blue screen.

Windows xp also records this information in the system eventlog, but
unfortunately does not record the name of the driver for driver related
crashes. You have to get that from the blue screen

Go into the system event log

start/run
eventvwr.msc

click on system in left pane.

Look down the events in the right hand pane and look for events labelled
either "save dump" or "System error"

Double click on the latest and use the copy button below the 2 arrow keys to
copy the error information, and then use right click/paste to paste it into
you reply post.

Paul