Vista32 BSOD - Is the crash log dump stored anywhere?

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Hi,

I've had a couple of BSODs on my Vostro 1500 / Vista32 recently. Has been happening intermittently since I upgraded the RAM to 4GB of OCZ 5300.

I'm not 100% sure but think it is something to do with it going into standby mode (as in that is what triggers the BSOD).

Anyhow, I came in drunk last night, tried to wake the laptop from sleep and it BSODed. I didn't write down the details, but was wondering if they will have been dumped somewhere on the hard drive where I can retrieve / view them.

Anyone know if this is the case? (and if so where I find the logs)

Any help would much appreciated,

Cheers,

Fred
 
Details of the error will be logged in the windows event log.

The actual dump is stored c:\windows\MEMORY.DMP then you can parse this with debugging tools.

I suspect that you just want to get the stop code, so its the event log that you want.

Generally if your PC is going into blue screen after resuming from standby you have an incompatibe driver installed. There are also a few hotfixes for standby issues if you trawl technet, However I woudl just wait a few weeks for SP1.
 
use debugging tools for windows to analyse the minidumps

they will be stored in C:\windows\minidump\ folder
 
OK I found the entry in the events log that I think relates to the BSOD I've been getting.

The entry says
The last sleep transition was unsuccessful. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, failed, or lost power during the sleep transition.
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Anyone know how to fix this?
 
KB929777 could be your answer if you are having memory upgade issues with memory dumps. The error code usually associated with this is 0x0000007E. This isusually associated with an Nforce chipset hibernate as well. Easily resolved by reinitialising the swap file.
 
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