Every time i try to watch a video or movie file on my laptop the screen soon goes blank and then something pops up saying beginning physical memory dump, or something to that effect?
2006-11-27 06:49:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Computer memory is RAM (random access memory)
What ram does, is hold information on temporary basis. for example, opening this page, the computer does not keep this web file saved onto your computer, it just opens it so that you can view it and move onto the next website (cashe'ing and such, are for other things are not important to this point)
Now, in your computer you have this ram, probobly on a couple of chips. sometimes the computer needs to make space and moves information from one chip to another, and sometimes in doing so the descriped BSoD (blue screen of death) appears.
well at least that is my understanding of what causes this problem
2006-11-27 06:51:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your operating system is crashing and all RAM memory is is being dumped in a file that can be analysed.
its called BSOD.
Blue screen of death.
You have a physical hardware or software fault that is de-stabilising the Operating system.
2006-11-27 06:59:02 · answer #2 · answered by Mark T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is knwon as the blue screen of death, dont do it again it can really mess up ur comp
2006-11-27 06:55:49 · answer #3 · answered by Tucker 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋