vista blue screen memory dump?

Question

i have 2 gigs of ram for my windows vista..........i got a blue screen memory dump.........the memory did not reach the 2 gig mark when it when to the blue screen,..........what is the cause of this?

Answer 1

In Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista, the blue screen of death occurs when the kernel or a driver running in kernel mode encounters an error from which it cannot recover. The only safe action the operating system can take in this situation is to restart the computer. As a result, data may be lost, as users are not given an opportunity to save data that has not yet been saved to the hard drive.

Blue screens are known as "Stop errors" in the Windows Resource Kit documentation. They are referred to as "bug checks" in the Windows Software development kit and Driver development kit documentation.

By default, Windows will create a memory dump file because a blue screen error occurs. Depending on the OS version, there may be several formats this can be saved in, ranging from a 64 KB "mini dump" to a "complete dump" which is effectively a copy of the entire contents of physical RAM. The resulting memory dump file may be debugged later, using a kernel debugger. A debugger is necessary to obtain a stack trace, and may be required to ascertain the true cause of the problem; as the information onscreen is limited and thus possibly misleading, it may hide the true source of the error.

Answer 2

Get XP pro, and say "hasta la Vista" to Vista