Get a load of this. I went to that same area on my main PC that I mentioned below to compare settings. They were the same. When I closed out of IT, I didn't get any warning about having no pagefile on C: on this PC! Yet, when I closed out of the area on the other PC, it gave that warning I mentioned below. Then it (for some reason) said to restart the PC. I did, and got this blue screen. (Difficult to take a picture of a CRT with no flash in low light!). http://orpheuscomputing.com/images4/ErrorScreen.jpg Any idea what that means and why that happened? I hit the reset button and it booted ok. -Clint
God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" Oh well I guess I'm screwed. Actually I think it's called "minidump" according that "advanced" tab. Same thing though, I don't see that file on ANY of my PC's. Why? I just went there to change a setting on the other PC and it gave a warning about having no page file on C: and if there is none, it can't write a memory dump! I have a dedicated partition for the swap file and none on C:! So can anyone verify this? Do I have to change the location of the "minidump" to the swap file partition location in order to see error reports? -Clint ----- Original Message ----- From: "@OrpheusComputing.com" Thanks Ben. If you mean right under C:, it's not there even with 'show all files' and 'show system files enabled'. I searched for *.dmp and the only file found was user.dmp and that was unreadable in Notepad. I looked to see when it was modified and strangely, it was MINUTES ago, while I was searching. I searched for "memory" next and all I found from that was .class files and I don't suppose it would be one of them. This was not this PC, but a new one I'm setting up and I'm testing it's limits. ;-) It's also had numerous HD's on it, on the IDE and on the SATA connectors for testing. -Clint ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Clint. Blue screen info should be in your root folder as memory.dmp. Right click on My Computer and select properties and then go to Advanced and then go to Startup and Recovery settings. You can try uncheck "automatically reboot" if you are trying to work out a specific problem. It's strange I have 5 machines here running XP and I honestly can't remember getting a blue screen. What are doing to your "poor" operating system? ;-) Ben Moore ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" > Group, when a crash happens in XP (Pro) where you see that blue > screen for a brief INSTANT that describes what happened but can > never read it, (and the PC restarts automatically) where is > that log file located? I've never been able to find it. These > type blue screen crashes never show in the "Event viewer" > program error log file area. I suspect these type crashes are > lower level system crashes, hence their non-showing in the > Event Viewer. > Thanks, > -Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
