Re: PC testing software

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dump files have a .dmp extension, don't they?  I'm searching both hard
drives for *.dmp.  So far only 1 file found, from Sep 2006.


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Lukas Beeler <
lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:01, Norm Dennis <nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I have always had difficulty interpreting it.
> > Hopefully Lucas will shed some light ;-)
>
> Here's a quick guide from Microsoft on this issue:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263
>
> Basically, you analyze the file using windbg and the Microsoft
> symbols. If one were a developer that's knowledgeable about Windows
> internals, one could exactly find out what the issue is.
>
> I don't. Basically, i look at the backtrace and start guessing who's
> at fault, starting with the Vendors i don't like. This has worked
> surprisingly well in the past.
>
> However, the issues i see with Jeff's crashdumps is the fact that we
> have three different crashes. This makes it more likely to be a
> hardware fault than a software, however things can be complicated.
>
> My next approach would be to uninstall the two programs related to the
> DLLs in the two crashdumps, and see if the problem happens again.
>
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