Where are BSOD logs on Vista? | Tech Off

TimP

Anyone know where Vista keeps its BSOD logs? I just had a very arbitrary BSOD and the only part of the message I saw was that it had to do with ntfs.sys. I got a kernel memory dump in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP, but I remember XP used to provide a report on what happened somewhere in the Windows folder. Does anyone know where that went? The Event Log is useless in this case (Your computer has unexpectedly shutdown... No sh*t).

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

TimP wrote:
Anyone know where Vista keeps its BSOD logs? I just had a very arbitrary BSOD and the only part of the message I saw was that it had to do with ntfs.sys. I got a kernel memory dump in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP, but I remember XP used to provide a report on what happened somewhere in the Windows folder. Does anyone know where that went? The Event Log is useless in this case (Your computer has unexpectedly shutdown... No sh*t).

On my XP boxes the Event Log says where the BSOD dump was saved...

What's your System Recovery settings?

ZippyV
Fired Up

%SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP

TimP

Unfortunately MEMORY.DMP is not the sort of log I'm looking for, it's just the entire contents of the Windows kernel in memory at the time of the crash. W3bbo is talking about what I'm thinking of.

Automatically restart was just unchecked so I can see it if it happens again. This was the first BSOD I've had on Vista in ~3 months of running it.

ZippyV
Fired Up

If you send the dumpfile with Problems and Solutions the solution will tell you what has caused it.

TimP

For some reason it's not an identifed problem in the Problem Reports and Solutions list. This seems like a half-hearted BSOD at best. Tongue Out

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Look for an information event in the System event log from source Bugcheck. It should read something like this:

"The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000044 (0xfffffa8004baec10, 0x0000000000000e77, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP."

EDIT: That was my first BSOD in ages, a few days ago, while unplugging my joystick. Perplexed