Bugcheck in Event View after boot

[Guest Bruce.]

Just FYI. Here's one for the Google archives. XP SP3.

 

My system is not now crashing nor BSOD but I've been getting this event

recorded in the Event Log on EVERY boot.

 

"The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000008e

(0xc0000005, 0x804ef186, 0xbacf374c, 0x00000000). A full dump was not

saved."

 

I was getting BSOD a while ago but have since fixed that.

 

It turns out that XP will record the above event message on every boot if

you still have this file:

 

c:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP

 

That's the file it usually writes during a BSOD, however the boot code is

apparently not smart enough to know it's an old file, so it continues to log

the bugcheck message in the Event Log on every boot.

 

Assuming you're not crashing anymore, deleting the file makes the bugcheck

event messages go away.

 

Bruce.