Physical Memory Dump

[causticgit]

Hi- new here, but I've lurked for a while.

I just rebuilt my system from the motherboard up, and it seems to be working just fine- except that it will randomly wipe out to a BSOD: Dumping physical memory. What exaclty IS this and how can I correct it? I think I've stopped it from rebooting after this, but the BSODs come at unexpected times. As yet, I haven't found a pattern to what triggers them. I don't overclock, and so far all I've run are IMs, IE, Firefox, some installations like Spybot, etc.

Some barebones specs. If you need others, I'll be happy to find them- if you can also tell me where to look... 🙂

Windows 2000 Server
AMD Athlom XP2900+
AT/AT Compatible
1,048,048KB RAM

New system includes a new motherboard, CPU, fan, & DDR memory. CD drives, floppy, hard drives and cables, etc were from older machines and should still be working.

Thanks a ton!

 

[Monkey muppet]

no harm in running Memtest for a few hours

then run your Manufacturers HDD testing software.

Have you viewed your event logger??

Page file OK?

 

[MrControversial]

A. Before memtest, eliminate the problem by running in safe mode. If it still dumps then it MAY be an OS issue that may require a reformat. But before this do the stuff in B to make sure.

B. If it doesn't dump, then it may be a hardware issue. You can either start uninstalling drivers or pulling out cards until the problem goes away. If it still reboots, then run tests on the memory and CPU.