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Minidump errors causing restarts

Discussion in 'Software Apps' started by Orakar, Jan 13, 2008.

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  1. Orakar Newcomer, in training

    Hi guys =]

    My computer broke a while back, so I bought a new system, and placed my old hard drive within that system. It works a treat, other than the fact that quite often, why I try to startup, it performs a search for corrupt files, and then, again, quite often, the computer randomly restarts (as it would if there had been a power cut). When it reloads windows, it says that the system has recovered from a serious error, and when I get more information, it gives me this error account:

    C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011308-01.dmp
    C:\DOCUME~1\Matt\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml


    I ran tweaknow, to try to clean the registry a little, but is there anything more specific I could do to help my problem?

    Thanks a lot in advance =]
  2. kimsland Ex-TechSpotter

    Can you reply and attach (by browsing to) C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011308-01.dmp
    This file may help in diagnosing the error
  3. Orakar Newcomer, in training

    Sure =]

    I trust you anyway XD

    Attached Files:

  4. kimsland Ex-TechSpotter

    Inside DMP file

    Could not read faulting driver name
    Probably caused by : ntoskrnl.exe ( nt!ExAllocatePoolWithTag+770 )

    Sorry, this DMP file is not a good reference to what is happening

    You will need to post more of them - ideally zipped up in one file
  5. Orakar Newcomer, in training

    Another two restarts today...

    C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011608-02.dmp
    C:\DOCUME~1\Matt\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER4.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml


    The zipped file is too large, so I'll have to do them singularly. Sorry =/

    I've uploaded the minidump from the last error, wonder if that helps

    Thanks for your amazing help thus far =]

    Attached Files:

  6. kimsland Ex-TechSpotter

    Inside the DMP file:
    This type of fault can be repaired by :

    Full Check Disk on your drive
    Do a full Defrag of your drive
    Is this drive NTFS ? (if not type: CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS at the command line)
    Running Memtest on your Ram
    Also MS has addressed this error and solution HERE

    Please reply back once these things are done
  7. Orakar Newcomer, in training

    I did all of the above, and still the problem persists, and I'm having major errors with other games and such. Will I need to replace the hard drive? =/
  8. kimsland Ex-TechSpotter

    That would likely fix it

    But before you go out and purchase another drive
    Do a full back up (likely already done, I hope)
    Run a full Repair on Windows

    Mind you if the drive is 80Gig capacity or under, I'd replace it.
  9. Orakar Newcomer, in training

    Thank you Kimsland, will do =]

    Thanks for your help, you've been wonderful =D
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