Windows 7 not generating crash dump file

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So I’ve looked all over the internet for a solution to this and have found nothing. Despite my best efforts, I can not get my system to create a MiniDump or a full kernel memory dump. I’ve followed everything listed here in this article.

http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=545

I have 41GB of free space on my boot drive. I have an 18GB pagefile for my 12GB of system memory (More than I need I know, but that’s what it recommended so I figured I try it for this). I’m forcing a crash using ctrl+scrlk+scrlk. It blue screens as I’d expect and says “Dumping physical memory”. But when I reboot, there’s no dump files created. Can anyone shed some light on this?

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer OEM
System Model OEM
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core™ i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz, 3326 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 8/25/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “6.1.7601.17514”
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 12.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 9.34 GB
Total Virtual Memory 30.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 26.4 GB
Page File Space 18.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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Anybody?

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My experience is that there is often an extra boot cycle required for new
pagefile settings to get reflected. So my suggestion is to try and reboot
twice after you have changed your settings and do not change them inbetween.

Note that the dump file is generated and extracted from the pagefile AFTER
rebooting. For a full memory dump that means it can take many minutes before
the dump file finally appears.

//Daniel

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I don’t have similar experience before. Maybe you can find some clues from Event Viewer? Try this Windows Logs > System category.

Also, do you see the Dumping physical memory to disk: “100”

If there is a bug/exception inside the crash dump driver stack, you won’t get crash dump.

BTW, do you install disk encryption product in your PC? They may not support crash dump generation.

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On 27-Mar-2013 09:19, xxxxx@intel.com wrote:

Anybody?

http://www.windows7library.com/blog/tweaks/memory-dump-tweak/