What is it



Memory dump or more exactly windows stop errors are NT-type issues that are displayed on a blue screen of death. Almost all are caused by hardware issues. These are rather confusing type of errors as windows chooses to display them in a 8-digit hexadecimal format. Which for most of us mean very little.

Stop errors are generated when windows has to stop running to avoid damaging your computer.

How does one troubleshoot memory dump or windows stop errors

Unfortunately more than one issue may be the cause of stop errors. Here are a few points of things to do in order to solve this type of BSOD error.

Reboot your PC. Many stop errors are caused by once-off hardware issues. A mere reboot will resolve those.

Open your PC box and reinsert all modules. If your RAM has creeped out of their sockets, windows may be having trouble writing on it.

Remove all recently added hardware and see if the issue does not go away.

Investigate whether similar errors have occured in the past. You can do it by going to your event viewer (this is done by going to control panel, administrative tool, event viewer).

Clean up your registry. If there is a drivers conflit, a registry clean up may easily pick this type of error.

Update your device drivers. I suggest, as far as possible that you get all your drivers directly from the device vendor, rather than downloading from third party sites. In fact these may cause compatibility issues of their own.

Go to registry error forum and read posts from users who have experienced a similar type of error. A good way of doing it is to run a search using the specific stop error as keyword.