Hello all,

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, pentium III, 1 gigahertz with 256 RAM, NVIDIA GForce 3 graphics card running under windows 2000.

I've had this laptop for a year and it has been working fine until a couple of months ago. Almost everytime I am using my computer, either surfing the net, working in photoshop, watching a DVD, shutting down the computer or sometimes not even using the computer at all, a blue screen comes up saying "Beginning dump of physical memory" and restarts. The blue screen comes and goes so fast that I can't even read the complete message, all I cam make out is the dumping of physical memory message.

So I reformatted, installed all the latest drivers and also installed survice pack 3 and still the problem remains. It is very annoying especially when I am working on something important and all of a sudden...BOOM!! I have tried to contact Dell support but they weren't much help.

Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?

Thanks

Ramsin

Go into Control Panel - System Icon - then
Startup and Recovery. Uncheck automatically
reboot and set Write Debugging Information to None. This won't necessarly fix your problem, but it will keep the computer from doing a memory dump and rebooting.

Have you upgraded the memory lately? Doing so, could have actually caused this problem with incompatible memory.

>Have you upgraded the memory lately?
>Doing so, could have actually caused
>this problem with incompatible memory.

No I haven't upgraded the memory, the system is the same as I bought it a year ago, with the exception of the OS which came with WINME so I reformatted and installed WIN2k immediately after I bought it.

>Go into Control Panel - System Icon - then
>Startup and Recovery. Uncheck automatically
>reboot and set Write Debugging Information
>to None. This won't necessarly fix your
>problem, but it will keep the computer
>from doing a memory dump and rebooting.

Thanks, I applied these settings and so far so good =-) But I'm just wondering, why was the system constantly dumping the physical memory and restarting? Was there a good reason why the system had to perform the operation? Because if there was a good reason, I'm hoping that this new setting won't cause new problems.

Thanks again

Ramsin

It is hard to say, it could be device driver that Win 2000 doesn't like, could be flaky
RAM. The problem may not be bad enough to cause a major problem, but Windows 2000 sees it as a problem and starts a memory dump. You are suppossed to be able to save this memory dump to a file for analysis by Microsoft. If you do have a problem, you will have a better chance figuring out what it is if you system does not reboot as soon as it sees the problem.

Thanks again guys, my laptop seems to be running fine so far with no more memory dumps or other problems.

Im glad I found this forum, it has been more help than Dell support has been =-)

Later

Ramsin

Check if Intel Application Accelerator is loaded in your system. Uninstalling this App. fixed my "Dumping" problem

if you get another BSOD, write down all info relavent to the error such as memory address and what module (i.e. ntoskrnl) is affected as well as error message (i.e. irq not less or equal to)