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it's bootable in normal mode.
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Navigate to: C:\Windows\Minidump folder.
If you see any .dmp files, zip all of them, and attach zipped file to your next reply.
Vista users You may need to copy .dmp files, paste them into some other folder, or desktop, and zip them there.


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There's no files in that folder. The first crash dump i had it was running smoothing and it dumped out the memory but i don't think it saved any log or anything like that and the crash dump i had earlier made my computer frozed and it just stayed at the blue screen so i had to turn it off by pressing the turn off button on the cpu.
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If you did, what I asked you to do in my reply #4, and you had another BSOD afterwards, dmp file(s) has to be there. There is no other possibility.
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Could we wait for the next crash dump one more time and see if it has .dmp files afterward? The problem is though, what if my computer doesn't run a memory dump but does show the blue screen that saying my computer will run a memory dump and it just freezes there?
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Surely, we can wait.
When next BSOD happens, write a whole message down, and post it back here.
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alright thank you!
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:)
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It went to the crash dump screen again and i left it alone. The screen was there for about 5 minutes and then it restarted the computer. I checked the minidump folder and still no files are in it.

Edited by iAzN, 11 June 2009 - 11:52 PM.

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Check C:\Windows for a file named "MEMORY.DMP" I'm finding a lot of systems set to make a kernel dump instead of a minidump.

If the file is there, it's too big to upload here. You'll have to open a free, online file hosting account (I like http://www.box.net ), then upload the file there, share it, and then post the link to it here in your next post.
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1. Whatever usasma said...
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write a whole message down, and post it back here

3. Did you check minidump folder?
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Yeah, i checked it and I checked the kernel file that usama was talking about and there aren't any files in any of those folders. Is there any other place i can look at to check the memory.dmp file?
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Use Advanced search to search your hard drive for files ending in .dmp
If there aren't any, then (for some reason) the system isn't creating them.

If that's the case, we'll have to try fixing that before we proceed.
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It says "No item matches your search."
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OK, go to Start and type in "sysdm.cpl" (without the quotes) and press Enter.
Click on the Advanced tab, then on the Startup and Recovery Settings button.
What are the settings in the System Failure box?
Click OK to exit

Then click on the Performance Settings button,
Click on the Advanced tab, then on the Virtual Memory Change button
What is the paging file size for each drive (or, if it's greyed out, what are the settings)?
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