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[Strawberrymom]

how to use a program to read .dmp files to assest the errors that are used in the minidump folder to find out why the system crashed or rebooted

 

[bsobel]

The dump files contain a snapshot of the system state and some kernel structures. Unless your comfortable with ring zero development they are not going to be usefull to you, I'm afraid.
Bill

 

[Strawberrymom]

whats ring zero?

and i want to be able to read it cause it tells me why the system crashed

 

[QTPie]

You system crashed bcuz MS windows sux

 

[CTho9305]

<< whats ring zero?

and i want to be able to read it cause it tells me why the system crashed >>


ring0 is the kernel-level of an operating system. the kernel handles talking to the hardware. applications talk to the kernel when they want stuff done, and users talk to the applications. most likely the .dmp file is going to be a huge hex dump of the registers, stack, etc., and you probably won't be able to make sense out of it. you can try opening it with notepad if you believe that it is not what we think.



<< You system crashed bcuz MS windows sux >>


thank you for your insights :|

 

[YNos]

we had our system do a core dump<win2k> while uploading to the ftp, burning a cd, and listening to mp3s all at the same time<warning, do not do this at home, or at work!> wont do that again.......anyway, i copied the .dmp file over ftp to my slackware box, used my binary editor of choice, and reaad it, interseting.............couldent tell you why it had a core dump<Hmmmmmmmmmmm> but i know it did.
lots of intersting info in there......
BTW did i say i was also browsing the web, i could see the URL of the site i was checking out.
gnight all
Craig Y Nos

 

[Nothinman]

BTW did i say i was also browsing the web, i could see the URL of the site i was checking out.

That's because the dmp file is an image of the memory at the time of the crash. It's only usefull if you plan on debugging the OS or the driver that went bad.