No dump after Blue Screen

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The file will be in C:\Windows\Minidump
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"Alex Coleman" <coalie@nomail.com> wrote in message news:96C4D2D8F755E31E75@204.153.244.156...
>I was restarting the PC after hibernate recently and I got a Blue
> Screen. I rebooted.
>
> Where can I find any log info about this crash?
>
> -----------
>
> In System properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery settings, I
> have got the following which I think are the defaults:
>
>
> Write An Event To The System Log - set to yes
> Send An Administrative Alert - set to yes
> Automatically restart - set to no
> Write Debugging Information - set to "Small Dump (64 KB)"
> Small Dump Directory - set to "%SystemRoot%\Minidump"
>
>
>
> Paging file on C: is 5 to 50 MB and on D it is 350 to 700 MB.
> 768 MB memory installed.
> Hibernate will sometimes be on.
>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/defaul...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

Simply open Start, Run, type (without quotes) '%SystemRoot%\Minidump' and click OK. The minidump files will appear on the screen.

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"Alex Coleman" <coalie@nomail.com> wrote in message news:96C4D2D8F755E31E75@204.153.244.156...
>I was restarting the PC after hibernate recently and I got a Blue
> Screen. I rebooted.
>
> Where can I find any log info about this crash?
>
> -----------
>
> In System properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery settings, I
> have got the following which I think are the defaults:
>
>
> Write An Event To The System Log - set to yes
> Send An Administrative Alert - set to yes
> Automatically restart - set to no
> Write Debugging Information - set to "Small Dump (64 KB)"
> Small Dump Directory - set to "%SystemRoot%\Minidump"
>
>
>
> Paging file on C: is 5 to 50 MB and on D it is 350 to 700 MB.
> 768 MB memory installed.
> Hibernate will sometimes be on.
>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/defaul...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

The folder C:\windows\Minidump is empty. It has a Modified Date
of 20 Aug 2005 but it has no contents.

What is happening?




On Thu 01 Sep 2005 22:14:33, Daniel Martín wrote:
<news RbaoozrFHA.3316@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>
>
> Simply open Start, Run, type (without quotes)
> '%SystemRoot%\Minidump' and click OK. The minidump files will
> appear on the screen.
>
> Greetings,
> Daniel Mart¡n



> "Alex Coleman" <coalie@nomail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> I was restarting the PC after hibernate recently and I got
>> a Blue Screen. I rebooted.
>> Where can I find any log info about this crash?
>>
>> -----------
>>
>> In System properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery
>> settings, I have got the following which I think are the
>> defaults:
>>
>>
>> Write An Event To The System Log - set to yes
>> Send An Administrative Alert - set to yes
>> Automatically restart - set to no
>> Write Debugging Information - set to "Small Dump (64 KB)"
>> Small Dump Directory - set to "%SystemRoot%\Minidump"
>>
>>
>>
>> Paging file on C: is 5 to 50 MB and on D it is 350 to 700 MB.
>> 768 MB memory installed.
>> Hibernate will sometimes be on.