When XP is able to trap a crash, it makes a copy of part of the memory
and writes it to the disk. This is called a "memory dump" if it is most of
the memory, or, in this case, a "mini-dump," because it is only a small part
of the memory. Probably five people in the world can interpret the
mini-dump
that the first line below represents. :)
In any case, it is not an error message, but a note of a dump being made for
analysis-of-error purposes. In the Minidump directory, you may find more
than one dump. Might as well delete them sometime to free up disk space.
I do not know what the second line refers to - go read it if you can. I
doubt that it will help much, but then I don't really know.
Finding the problem may be difficult. Does it crash in about the same place
in the same program? Then the program has a problem. Does it crash in
different programs but when the computer has been running about the same
amount of time? Then, perhaps an overheating problem. Does it crash
randomly - different times and different places? Then, perhaps you have
corrupted files. Run a chkdsk to see if you have bad spots on your disk.
Other h/w problems may be very difficult to track down.
HTH
Dean Kukral [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barb" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Need some help
I just did a reformat and clean install of Windows XP and keep getting the
following error:
C:\Windows\Minidump\mini090103.02.dmp
C:\Docume~Amy\Locals~1\Temp\Wer1.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml
I can be working on the computer and it will just shutdown and when it
reboots it says it has recovered from a serious error and then it shows the
above. For a split second a blue screen comes up but goes away so fast I
cannot read what is on it. Can someone tell me what could be causing this
or if there is a fix out there for it. TIA
Barb Klugo
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