On 5 Feb 2007 at 13:16, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> What does the error message "Beginning Dump Of Physical Memory" mean. 
>  And what can I do? 

  A "memory dump" is a listing, in some legible form, of the "raw" binary 
contents of memory.  In the case of some extreme low-level error conditions, 
analysis of this information "by hand" may be the only clue a programmer has 
to determine what caused the error condition.

  This level of debugging is really only useful in a lab, where the 
engineers can attempt to reproduce every nuance of hardware and software in 
order to understand the problem.
  In your case, it is far more likely that some software component or driver 
is corrupted or out of date; or if this is really being caused by a program 
bug, there may be an updated version available that fixes the problem.

  A memory dump is really not useful to a consumer without access to an 
engineer and the source code for the OS and applications.  All you can do is 
try to identify and fix the problem that is causing XP to produce a dump.

David Gillett

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