>Every few weeks, I get the blue screen notifying me of a crash dump. Maybe >the computer has diarrhea:) Anyway, it restarts the computer. Why is it done >and is it necessary?
Very necessary. You are being punished for using Vista. Something that happens so infrequently is going to be very hard to address using "normal" troubleshooting methods. Instead I would note the time that the crash dump was generated and then look through all the system logs to see what messages were posted in the minutes just before the crash dump. This is easier to do if you can see all the logs at once. Can Vista do that? Apple's latest OS just added that ability to its log viewer and it is making my life a lot easier. I recently had a driver-related problem on a Mac and with three crashes to work on I noticed that a particular driver was being loaded just before each crash. I quick call to the vendor confirmed it as a known problem with a patch available. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
