Bluescreen and memory dump

Greetings

I am running Vista Home Premium 64 bit and running into blue screens
and I think it has to do with memory. I have a strange hybrid asu
mobo, a P5QC, which has 6 memory slots, 1&3 are for 800 Mhz DDR2, 2&
are for 1066 Mhz DDR2. I do not use slots 5,6 since this is for DDR
memory only

I have two paired sets of RAM, total of 8 gigs RAM, both are from th
same vendo
(Patriot) and the CAS Latencies and timings are excellent and should b
compatible. They are "viper series" high performance modules so
should not be having conflicts. I have disabled Memory OC'ing in BIO
to prevent BIOS from creating timing errors. I have the BIOS set to ru
all the modules at 800 Mhz which the 1066 Mhz memory ought to do withou
even thinking about it.

I was reading another post on this forum - also called, "Bluescreen an
memory dump," and reading through the post, I found out abou
c:\windows\minidump
Sure enough, when I checked this out, there are the minidump files.
They have an extension of .DMP, but upon clicking them, I cannot execut
a text file read of these. Vista did a file extension search, but to n
avail - this file extension is not in the Microsoft file extensio
identification reference

So my question here is, what do I need to take a look at the .DM
files? Is it some kind of scripting editor or debugger and where do
get this from? Is it contained in some SDK that Microsoft make
available

Any leads or URL's would be greatly appreciated. Thank

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jimc52

Hi,

To examine the dump files requires a debugging tool, appropriate symbol set
for the operating system, and a little bit of machine language knowledge so
that you can understand what you're looking at. The first two can be
obtained at the links below:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtoo...nstallx86.Mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevToo...symbolpkg.mspx

Before you go to that length however, you might want to first run the
installed memory diagnostic tool. Just type 'memory diagnostic' into the
start/search line and it will appear in the start menu for you to select.
Just because it's high-end memory does not mean it cannot have failed or be
faulty. This is more common than you might think.

Also, if you'd like a minidump analyzed, I'd be happy to do it for you.
Simply send the most recently dated one (please don't send more than one) to
me at rick_at_mvps_dot_org using a subject line of "per req" (others will
not get past mail filters and I will never see it).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"jimc52" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Greetings:
>
> I am running Vista Home Premium 64 bit and running into blue screens,
> and I think it has to do with memory. I have a strange hybrid asus
> mobo, a P5QC, which has 6 memory slots, 1&3 are for 800 Mhz DDR2, 2&4
> are for 1066 Mhz DDR2. I do not use slots 5,6 since this is for DDR3
> memory only.
>
> I have two paired sets of RAM, total of 8 gigs RAM, both are from the
> same vendor
> (Patriot) and the CAS Latencies and timings are excellent and should be
> compatible. They are "viper series" high performance modules so I
> should not be having conflicts. I have disabled Memory OC'ing in BIOS
> to prevent BIOS from creating timing errors. I have the BIOS set to run
> all the modules at 800 Mhz which the 1066 Mhz memory ought to do without
> even thinking about it.
>
> I was reading another post on this forum - also called, "Bluescreen and
> memory dump," and reading through the post, I found out about
> c:\windows\minidump.
> Sure enough, when I checked this out, there are the minidump files.
> They have an extension of .DMP, but upon clicking them, I cannot execute
> a text file read of these. Vista did a file extension search, but to no
> avail - this file extension is not in the Microsoft file extension
> identification reference.
>
> So my question here is, what do I need to take a look at the .DMP
> files? Is it some kind of scripting editor or debugger and where do I
> get this from? Is it contained in some SDK that Microsoft makes
> available?
>
> Any leads or URL's would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>
>
> --
> jimc52