“My computer just had a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), and I wrote down the stop information.
While I was writing that, it was dumping the contents of the memory into a file, and that file was called “MEMORY.DMP”
Is there any way I can read that, and see what caused my computer to stop?”
The Answer is YES.
The BSOD is always the result of a critical system error and Windows can no longer keep on running when that occur and instead crashes. About 80 percent of all BSODs occur because of bad drivers. Hardware problems such as corrupt memory modules or hard drive generally also produce a BSOD every now and then.
The Memory.dmp file created by BSOD contains useful information that may help identify why your computer has stopped unexpectedly. It can be read using a Microsoft Debugging tool. …..Click here to read more