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Whenever there is a BSOD please post a new zip:
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There's possibly an issue with the configurations for a BSOD.

What are the settings of the pagefile?
To find this,

• open control panel,
• choose system,
• go to advanced system settings,
• choose tab advanced,
• choose settings in the performance section,
• choose advanced tab,
• click change

 

Hi axe0; thanks for your reply.

OK, I navigated to where you instructed:

• open control panel,
• choose system,
• go to advanced system settings,
• choose tab advanced,
• choose settings in the performance section,
• choose advanced tab,
• click change

After that final step where I click on "Change", that brings up "Virtual Memory". At the top of this there is a check-mark in the box for "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives". Below that in the section labeled "Paging file size for each drive", the options in here are greyed-out (non-clickable), presumably because of the check-mark in the box for "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives", correct?

Then below this in the section labeled "Total paging file size for all drives", it has this listed:
- Minimum allowed: 16 MB
- Recommended: 4982 MB
- Currently allocated: 34816 MB

I don't know.....does that make sense? That seems somehow wrong to me. My total system RAM is 32 GB....and currently allocated is 34816 MB??? Isn't that roughly 34 GB? Isn't that technically more than I currently have physically installed on my motherboard?

Anyway....does the information I provided help in any way towards figuring out why I experienced my recent BSOD?

 

Windows allocates more virtual memory than physical memory, it does this because a complete memory dump requires the page file to be larger than the RAM.
If this is changed, there may be problems when creating a dump.

Since there appears to be no dump within the logs, please upload the kernel dump to onedrive, google drive, or Dropbox and post a share link. The kernel dump is located directly in the windows folder.

 

axe0: Kernel dump?

On the 1st page of this thread, BSODHunter said: "Can you provide us with the kernel memory dump please? Its located in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. You can upload it to an cloud service like dropbox or onedrive." And I had replied that there is no file or folder by that name in my C:\Windows root folder.

Maybe this is part of my issue? That things are a little strange? From what you and BSODHunter are saying, it sounds like there should be a kernel dump in my C:\Windows folder.

From the BSOD that I had about a week ago, shouldn't it have left a record somewhere on my system? In my System Properties/ Startup and Recovery/ Settings, it's configured to perform a "Complete Memory Dump" in %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP

Something weird going on......

Any more ideas?

 

Have you by any chance have used a tool like disk cleanup, Ccleaner or similar tools to free up space?

 

Wow, axe0: you just nailed it.

Soon after I had that BSOD, I used the built-in Windows tool of Disk Cleanup. And yup, that clears up some free space....and that's what probably got rid of that kernel dump/ Memory.dmp?

 

It most likely did, it's not uncommon since dumps can take up space.