Perhaps there was no minidump on that error... the memory isn't always dumped on every error, you know. ________
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. . . . . . . . . . Will Rogers On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Laurence Spiegel < [email protected]> wrote: > No mini dump being created at BSODs, > couldn't record basic blue screen info. > > OnT40p, XPpro Sp3 I can find no dump file being created after 3 recent > BSODs. Previously (last year) such dumps were placed into > C:\windows\minidump. > Under 'startup and recovery options' I have it set to 64K dump, write event > to log, dump dir %systemroot%\minidump. > Virtual mem is was to 2MB on C: and the remainder (system managed size) on > D. > There's 1.5G physical ram. Should be plenty of virtual mem for a 64k dump > file. (I just reset virtual mem on C: to 4/4 MB, expecting that will do > nothing). > The checkbox 'automatically restart' is cleared, but last time it restarted > itself nonetheless, so I could not record the blue screen info. > > I need only the basic info such as the "irq not less...." errors and the > stop error number, not a detailed dump of the system state. I want to > determine what type of problem it is and have that ready for a service call, > in part to be sure the correct repair is applied. > > Any thoughts? Supposedly a 2MB page file an C: is enough for mini dump to > work, but maybe there's an undocumented issue? > thanks! > > Larry > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
