Quick Debugging Blue Screen of Death – BSOD
Quick Analyzing of Blue Screen:
1. Obtain MEMORY.dmp file
2. Download:
a. Windows Debugging Tools
b. Symbols (optional)
3. Issue this command:
windbg -y SRV*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols -z “Change this LOCATION to drive letter:\MEMORY.DMP”
Windows Debugging Tools will then obtain symbols on demand from Microsoft. This will save you time.
You also have the option to install symbol yourself but I couldn’t have windbg to load correct version. This is important, if an incorrect version of symbol loaded or could not be found, it will lead you to different direction and not able to pinpoint the culprit. At least in my case, I have two different output pointing to different faulting modules.
4. From within the command line tool in WinDbg, issue !analyze –v
5. The result above tell us that tmwfp was casuing the BSOD. You can then Google tmwfp to find out what it is and its possible solution.
Useful Links:
1. How to read the small memory dump files that Windows creates for debugging
2. How can I read the memory dump files that Windows ccreates for debugging?
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