Windows 10: Why does Windows 10 not create a dump file?

I have a modern Surface and it continually blue screens. Unfortunately it never creates a dump file so i am not able to debug the cause of the crash. I have validated the correct settings for dump file creation e.g. following instructions such as these: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/130536/windows-does-not-save-memory-dump-file-after-a-crash


and


https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/d445ff20-516e-4cea-962e-64b359c0b88a/bsod-does-not-create-dump-files?forum=WindowsInsiderPreview


I just want to get to the bottom of the issue and i don't just want to perform a clean factory install until i have attempted to determine the issue in case it is hardware related. My surface is only 4 months old and it has been plagued with BSOD.


Thanks to anyone that can provide me some other ideas.


Evenvwr reports event 161 from volmgr - Dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation.

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Windows 10 isnt creating memory dumps

It should still be doing a dump whether it's just from kernel space or kernel plus user space. It's possible the crashes your PC is experiencing are not allowing for a memory dump to be created. It's happened to me before when I've been pushing my overclock to far. Instead of the sad face BSOD I've gotten a hard lockup that prevented a memory dump.

This might be worth looking over.
Configure Windows 10 to Create Minidump on BSOD

 

Memory dump file?

Don't know if this will help you or not?
http://support.theplanet.com/kb/ope...d-memory-dump-files-windows-creates-debugging

 

Windows 10 isnt creating memory dumps

Ok if my pc starts crashing again il follow your advice. i used 5 hours last night and game for about 3 hours with no issue.

I also updated my gpu drivers as well.