Not a direct answer to your question but something to look at......did you just 
install the Feb updates...look for 393802 and MAYBE 2264207. One of them, 
probably the first one has some issues with video card drivers that were 
written badly. See if there are updates for your vid card drivers or remove 
those two updates.  HP is having a fair amount of trouble with this one, I had 
one server doing this. No newer vid card drivers available so I pulled those 
two updates and it is fine ever since.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Leone [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file

I've got a Win2008 R2 server that has decided that it is a yo-yo, and is 
rebooting daily (at different times), sometimes twice within like 20 minutes. 
In Control Panel, I have "Kernel memory dump" chosen under "Write debugging 
information", with the value "%SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP (and checked off 
"Overwrite any existing file").

But I never get any dump file - there are no files *.DMP anywhere on the 
server. And I don't know why it's not writing one. I want to run one through 
the WinDbg debugger, hopefully yo have it point at the problem (bad device 
driver, I'm guessing).

The event log only says the previous shutdown was unexpected - never lists any 
bugcheck values or anything. So I'm sort of flying blind at this point.

What would cause the DMP file to never be written? How can I get a DMP to 
analyze?

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