Physical Memory Dump?

[Skyline]

I have no clue what it is. Every now and then a blue screen will pop up and "Dump" the physical memory... I'm not the most computer literate person, so I'm not sure how to fix this...

[Rayquaza]

If you're getting this,
http://megalife.com.ua/uploads/posts/2010-11/1288709775_best-wallpaper-2.jpg

It is known as a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). It can be fixed through a System Restore to an earlier image, Re-install of Windows or may the result of a virus trying to cause harm to the computer, in which case, You will need to use necessary anti-virus software to remove it.

A BSoD is quite serious and you should only ever have to encounter one at rare circumstances. The memory dump is just Windows trying to fix itself for next time.

[Swagamemmnon]

If you're getting this,
image (http://megalife.com.ua/uploads/posts/2010-11/1288709775_best-wallpaper-2.jpg)

It is known as a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). It can be fixed through a System Restore to an earlier image, Re-install of Windows or may the result of a virus trying to cause harm to the computer, in which case, You will need to use necessary anti-virus software to remove it.

A BSoD is quite serious and you should only ever have to encounter one at rare circumstances. The memory dump is just Windows trying to fix itself for next time.

Well then I must have a really shitty computer, because I get one of those at least twice a day.

[justinglives]

I got this on an older hp. They were of NO HELP AT ALL. Found a friend who reinstalled windows and tht seemed 2 fix it. But it wiped all user info and installed programs. At least its better than ha ing 2 buy a new one!
*** i have no idea where mine came from.

[Skyline]

Well then I must have a really shitty computer, because I get one of those at least twice a day.

Same here... It happens quite often to me...

[Swagamemmnon]

Mine is so horrible that I have to keep a fan on it, otherwise it overheats whenever I press a single button. Also It is falling apart and I have to hold it together with duct tape. It's an HP, and I think I'm starting to notice a pattern.

[ethanf93]

Same here... It happens quite often to me...

It might be possible to diagnose what's wrong from the message. (On the example message the interesting string is "DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" Look for an all uppercase message near the top.) - if you can post the error name it might be something fixable. If there's something .sys mentioned that'd be helpful too.

The other thing to consider is the computer has bad part(s). (E.g. bad RAM, bad video card, HDD dieing...)

[Skyline]

It might be possible to diagnose what's wrong from the message. (On the example message the interesting string is "DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" Look for an all uppercase message near the top.) - if you can post the error name it might be something fixable. If there's something .sys mentioned that'd be helpful too.

The other thing to consider is the computer has bad part(s). (E.g. bad RAM, bad video card, HDD dieing...)

Alright I will have to look for it when it happens again...

[Human]

I had a lot of BSOD when I broke my Hard drive by dropping my laptop too much.
I had to get a replacement Hard drive, as when you drop it the platters get damaged. I recommend you get one as soon as possible, as I was close to being unable to recover any data they were so damaged.

[Skyline]

If you're getting this,
image (http://megalife.com.ua/uploads/posts/2010-11/1288709775_best-wallpaper-2.jpg)

It is known as a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). It can be fixed through a System Restore to an earlier image, Re-install of Windows or may the result of a virus trying to cause harm to the computer, in which case, You will need to use necessary anti-virus software to remove it.

A BSoD is quite serious and you should only ever have to encounter one at rare circumstances. The memory dump is just Windows trying to fix itself for next time.

It did it again and the message was something along the lines of SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION

[Rayquaza]

It did it again and the message was something along the lines of SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION

I can anticipate a lot of responses of people saying "You entered your product key wrong", and that could be a reason, but not because of you entering the key wrong, but maybe because software is conflicting with the Windows Licence Check or (which I doubt) you used an Activator for Windows which can cause this.

Your best bet would be to read up about it here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/hardware/ff559317(v=vs.85).aspx) and see if anyone on that forum can help you as my knowledge is limited as well as many other users...and also since I have never come across this error myself.

[Skyline]

I think I might have fixed it... there were 21 outdated drivers/ devices...

[unusedaccount]

It's probably being caused by a hardware error. A Physical Memory Dump, is a Dump of all data in your Physical Memory (RAM) to a file, on the Hard Disk. Which can then be analysed, by developers, and computer literate people and such... RAM doesn't permanently store anything, every time you restart your PC, the data in your RAM is wiped, hence why BSOD's write log files to a file on the HDD. If you don't know what your doing, it'd be best to take it to a computer shop, if you start fiddling with it, and end up breaking it further you'll have to pay more to get it fixed.

Sources: I got those mad IT skillz.

[Celtic.]

Good thing who have a windows computer. Linux just takes memory dumps for no reason

[TheMatrix]

Good thing who have a windows computer. Linux just takes memory dumps for no reason

Only when using dodgy applications. But that can happen on Windows, too.It can happen on any operating system, even(or perhaps especially) OS/2 had them.

Unless, of course, you can give me an example or two?

[Celtic.]

Only when using dodgy applications. But that can happen on Windows, too.It can happen on any operating system, even(or perhaps especially) OS/2 had them.

Unless, of course, you can give me an example or two?
examples of linux doing random memory dumps? sure! When you wanna update your system 7/10 linux is going to do a memory dump for some random reason. another example? almost all the time when i used to TRY to remove a program it either took like 2 hours to remove it or a memory dump.
this last one has never happend to me But my freind gets it all the time. when he trys to download a music file 9/10 times linux goes cray cray and takes a memory dump. Can you explain why any of those examples take memory dumps?

[TheMatrix]

examples of linux doing random memory dumps? sure! When you wanna update your system 7/10 linux is going to do a memory dump for some random reason.
I sincerely doubt it, but it's possible.
Explain what you were doing. What distribution were you attempting to update? What were you updating?

another example? almost all the time when i used to TRY to remove a program it either took like 2 hours to remove it or a memory dump.
How did you try to remove it? Simply deleting the files? Yes, that could trigger a memory dump, especially when you remove things like that annoyingly large "/usr/lib".
And removing it shouldn't take 2 hours, unless a file was locked somewhere and something was waiting for it. Or maybe rm was waiting for you to type "y" to the prompt "are you sure you want to delete all files?".

But the same happens on Windows. Remove "System.dll" and for some reason things stop working.

this last one has never happend to me But my freind gets it all the time. when he trys to download a music file 9/10 times linux goes cray cray and takes a memory dump.
Was he using some dodgy Windows executable running on Wine? You know, the ones called "Download.exe" and commonly live on those file sharing sites? Because then I wouldn't be surprised.

Can you explain why any of those examples take memory dumps?

Without more information, no, I can't.

Also, please don't post in bright green text. It's hard for me to read.

[Celtic.]

I sincerely doubt it, but it's possible.
Explain what you were doing. What distribution were you attempting to update? What were you updating? Java. Ive updated java millions of times and ive never seen a memory dump while updating java until linux.


How did you try to remove it? Simply deleting the files? Yes, that could trigger a memory dump, especially when you remove things like that annoyingly large "/usr/lib".
And removing it shouldn't take 2 hours
it did because every time i TRIED to remove it a memory dump happend. I couldent remove it because of all the freaking memory dumps.





Was he using some dodgy Windows executable running on Wine? You know, the ones called "Download.exe" and commonly live on those file sharing sites? Because then I wouldn't be surprised.
That is exactly the kind. but i dont understand why it has never happened to me. Is it because its from a different site ?





Also, please don't post in bright green text. It's hard for me to read.
ooh im sorry i dident BRIGHT GREEN TEXT!
but seriously is this a better color ->Bacon

[ethanf93]

What exactly was the error when you were [doing whatever] with Java? There isn't really an error called "memory dump." Do you mean segmentation fault? Or kernel panic? Was there a more involved error message? Computers don't error out for no reason.


it did because every time i TRIED to remove it a memory dump happend. I couldent remove it because of all the freaking memory dumps.
Did you actually try to delete /usr (or something under it like /usr/lib?) Because that will pretty much destroy your system.

That is exactly the kind. but i dont understand why it has never happened to me. Is it because its from a different site ?So, to clarify, you're trying to run a really dodgy, probably virus laden file and are upset Wine can't handle it?

[TheMatrix]

Java. Ive updated java millions of times and ive never seen a memory dump while updating java until linux.
I don't know how good Oracle's version of Java is for Linux, as I've never used it. Consider using a better(IMO) alternative, and install IcedTea (http://icedtea.classpath.org/)(install from your distribution's package manager).
How did you remove it? Does Oracle provide an un-installer? Or did you just rm all of the files you thought were related?

That is exactly the kind. but i dont understand why it has never happened to me. Is it because its from a different site ?
Please tell me you're trolling. Please oh please tell me you didn't go download a dodgy program from some site that any Windows computer with a sensible virus scanner immediately blocks.
Because while that program may not be able to do the same as it would on Windows under Wine, you could still suffer from your files mysteriously vanishing.