Physical Memory Dump

[James55]

My new machine has done this several times. On one occasion I had to totally reinstall everything . Couldnt even boot to safe mode after the dump. I cant figure it out. In searching about it on the net it talks of faulty memory but I have just built this P4 and have new pc2700 ram. Can anyone please help me figure this one out?

P4 2.0 ghz,
1 gig pc2700 ram
Geforce 4 ti 4200
Sound blaster extigy
Soyo dragon ultra platinum mb
40+60gig seagate drives

[Sephiroth]

heya James

Look in this folder: C:\Windows\Minidump

if it exists, there should be a few files in there. Post one of those as an attachment here and I'll take a look at it. Those files are the memory dumps when your PC bluescreens, and I'll take a look and see if I can figure out why it's doing it.

[nnuxx]

Quote:

Originally posted by Sephiroth@Apr 19 2003, 08:00 PM
I'll take a look and see

interesting... ever wondered wich app does open those in a way for a human to read : e:

how can i, sephiroth?

thx

[Sephiroth]

do a google for microsoft debugging tools for windows

it should find a page at MS that has a debugger, and symbols, just read and follow all the directions on the page to set it up

it's been a while since i've used it, but i think in the app you do file , open, crash dump, open the file, then type !analyze -v in the window and it'll give you a lot of debugging info if you've set it up right, and a file at the bottom that caused the crash, you can usually tell by the file what the error at least relates to

[nnuxx]

@sephiroth
thx 4 d info m8

@James
i would gess on a bad RAM or a bad disk in a wild guess
dont u have any errors in event viewer bout disk or something??

[billybob3]

@james
Just because it's brand new ram, it could still be faulty....but it could also be caused by another piece of hardware.

@nnuxx

SLOW DOWN on the smileys....

[AnneJay]

Had that exact same problem - memory dumps, couldn't get into the machine in safe mode and finally all the machine would give me was stop messages. Got the memory tested and yup that's what it was.