Blue Scr Of Death In Vista

Blue Scr Of Death In Vista Blue scr of death while booting vista

#1 snazzy71

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Posted 01 October 2008 - 03:35 PM

Hi, my pc often goes on a system halt while booting. it has win vista business edition installed and a blue screen of death appears when booting. The system then grinds to halt and this is repeated for lyk 3 reboots after which it boots normally. There is an error msg with wording "Dumping memory..........." sumthin' that appears on the blue screen. Can ne1 hlp me solve this problem.
pc specs:Pentium D3.0g , 3gig ram, Getforce 7300
Ty!

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Posted 01 October 2008 - 05:18 PM

Please write down the Stop Codes/ Error Codes here so that we can research the issue. Yoou may also do this yourself by using google and reporting the
results here. This will help US, to help You.

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Posted 11 October 2008 - 05:51 AM

Hi, Ive listed the Error codes below..

Technical info. PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
STOP: 0X0000004E(0X0000009A,0X000BDD08,0X00000006,0X00000002)
initializing disk for crash dump.
Beggining dump of physical memory
Dumping of physical memory

Disable caching of memory.

Rgds,

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Posted 11 October 2008 - 01:01 PM

The two most likely causes for this are bad RAM or corrupted drivers.

So, the first step would be to run the Vista Memory Diagnostic tool. Here's a link to the tutorial: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/using-vista-windows-memory-diagnostics-tool/

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