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Originally Posted by adios
Yeah there is actually a certain point coming out of sleep modes where a crash dump can't be collected. I would enable a complete crash dump collection instead of a kernel crash dump, find someone in Microsoft support (don't even know if this kind of service exists) that will look at your crash dump with windbg to give you details. Let me research the availability of symbol definitions for Windows. What version of Windows are you running?
The bug check number helps, in this case 3B, but it doesn't tell you everything. Graphics driver runs in kernel mode btw. I think some driver running in kernel mode is trashing memory but have no idea which one.
BTW my understanding is that the layoffs at Microsoft in Bellevue/Redmond announced yesterday hit the test teams really, really hard. Fully testing kernel mode win drivers is often challenging, particularly graphics drivers. The effectiveness of QA for Microsoft products should be interesting to observe.
Oh, you are right adios. Last thing I remembered was when they moved it out of kernel mode into user mode, but that was long ago. LOL. Never had any problems in the past decade running NVidias. Btw, the symbols are available online. Just let the kernel symbol definiton point to the correct URL (srv*DownstreamStore*
http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols) and WinDbg will download the corresponding symbols from Microsoft. Since Microsoft is offering frequent updates via Windows update, this is a neccessity. Unfortunately WinDbg is not available seperately anymore ->
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx. Once it is installed just set the correct symbol search path, open the dump file (.DMP) and then enter "analyze -v".
If I get a URL to the crash dump file somewhere and you send me a PM I can have a look at it with WinDbg if you like. Please note that this will contain all the memory, so there maybe sensitive information in the dump, depending on the apps that were running at the time of the crash. Sometimes it will reveal more info about what was happening when the crash occured, sometimes it will just make you bang your head against the wall. Alternatively you can try to install WinDbg as described above and paste the result of analyze -v for us.
Last edited by AnotherMakiavelli; 07-23-2014 at 12:50 AM.