Re: OT : Windows crash log files


ric zito wrote:
> > ric zito wrote:
> >
> >> Can somebody please tell me where the hell XP writes its crash log?
> >> I'm getting sudden total system freezes, and I'd like to see if I can
> >> at least find the culprit.
> >>
> >> TIA!
> >
> > Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer
> >
> > Not that it's likely to be of much help to you...
>
> Thanks Paul, but you were right. Not much help.
>
> Is there a utility out there that saves out the RAM dump to text? I'm
> having these arbitrary total freezes on the Compaq portable - frozen
> cursor et al. I'm pretty sure it's a hardware problem, 'cause it can
> happen in any app, under various circumstances.
>
> I've done RAM tests, both with the MS utility, and with MemTest, and
> they checked out OK. I'm monitoring temperature, and it seems OK (never
> goes higher than 54°). The HD checks out OK according to Diskkeeper
> which can do a complete defrag without running into bad blocks.
>
> I'm stumped; I was hoping maybe a Unix-style crash logger would be able
> to tell me what the last event before crashing was. I guess I'll keep
> looking...:(
>
> --
> ric at pixelligence dot com

if you are getting total freeze-up you are not even entering the "bug
check" .. there will be nothing logged..

it sounds like a memory leak .. try setting perfmon you can set it to
log all sorts of useful stuff, and the last entries are just before the
crash.

Are you frozen to the point that CTRL + ALT + DELETE does nothing? If
so then the other poster who mentioned MSConfig is on the right track..


now i don't remember if this required a patch from microsoft or not but
when we were having similar issues we were able to force a bug check
from a command prompt by typing kill explorer.exe

sysinternals also makes a program that may help.. but I would still go
with perfmon first

.

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