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by fancoms

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My NT 4.0 SP5 Compaq Proliant 5000 server is crashing intermittantly. I've nearly gotten to the point where I've ruled out hardware issues. I need info on the memory dump. What type of info does it contain? Can it be decieferred (sic)? And by whom? Does it overwrite the previous memory dump after each crash? Is there useful info contained in it?

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by lewey04

My experience with memory dumps has led me to the conclusion that the only people that can really help with those memory dumps is Microsoft.
The previous memory dump is overwritten by default so you can rename it before the next crash if you want to save old dump files. However as you can probably attest to the files are usually quite large.
There is useful information in it if you can decipher it. You can do a search here on BSOD and read the article that ED Bott wrote. Just my two cents. Good luck.

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