The appearance of a blue screen anyone can be confused. It would seem that only yesterday the system worked fine, and now, for some unknown reason, Windows does not boot. Below in the window you can see how the Dumping physical memory to disk process is activated, followed by a spontaneous reboot of the system. What is the reason how to deal with such phenomena, read on.
Blue screen with activation of the Dumping physical memory to disk process: what is the reason for its appearance?
In general, the appearance of a blue screen with the start of the above process in most cases should be regarded as a reaction of a computer system, not a malfunction or a conflict at the hardware level.
In other words, a failure occurred in some kind of iron component. And it may not necessarily be physical in nature, although this option is also not excluded. In any case, the user sees an error and the appearance of the Dumping physical memory to disk: 100 process, after which the line Memory dump complete is issued, and a restart follows.
In this case, the process itself is a dump of a memory dump to disk with a 100-second countdown to restart the system. But why is this happening? Most experts identify three possible causes of this phenomenon:
- problems with the video card or its driver;
- Inoperative RAM strips;
- malfunctioning hard drive.
Dumping physical memory to disk: Windows does not boot. What to do first?
Based on the reasons mentioned above, you can take appropriate measures to fix the problem. And the very first thing you can do is try to start automatic system recovery (rollback to the state preceding the failure).
If after a forced restart and turning off the computer or laptop by long pressing the power button, nothing happens, a reboot in this way must be performed several times. If this doesn’t help, and the notification about the start of the Dumping physical memory to disk process appears again, in Windows 7 you can use the F8 key during the initial boot of the system, and then select the download of the last successful configuration in the start menu that appears.
If this does not work, perhaps from the same menu the system will boot with a safe start. If the download went fine, you will have to use the recovery partition and try to roll back Windows yourself, specifying the desired point from the list that can be expanded to display all snapshots of the state.
Note: rollback can also be performed if there is an installation or recovery disk, which looks much more preferable.
Reinstalling graphics drivers
However, as practice shows, the appearance of the Dumping physical memory to disk process may not always be connected precisely with the state of the operating system. Often the cause of the appearance of BSoD is the graphics adapter, which is activated in the first place when the OS starts.
If the reason is not physical damage, again, you can boot through the start menu with the choice of a safe start and completely remove the video card drivers in the "Task Manager", which can be called up either from the standard "Control Panel", or from the "Administration" section, or through Run console by writing the devmgmt.msc command in it.
After removing the driver, you can do two things: install new drivers immediately or reboot, in which the system installs them yourself. It seems better to use the first solution (especially if there is a “native” driver disk).
But you can do even easier by installing any automatic driver update program like Driver Booster. Only for this it is necessary to boot the system with the same safe start, but already with the support of network drivers (for updating you will need an Internet connection).
If this does not work, and the blue screen appears again (Dumping physical memory to disk), the adapter may be the case. As one of the solutions, you can offer to simply rearrange the video card in another slot on the motherboard. If this does not help, the device will have to be replaced and try to boot the system again.
Note: if the mother planet has an integrated graphics card, you can switch to it in the BIOS settings. If the download occurs without problems, the cause of the failure will become apparent.
Identification of problems with RAM
Often the cause of such an unpleasant phenomenon is the memory straps, especially if they are incompatible with each other. In the case when the system can boot safely, a small utility Memtest86 + will help to identify problems.
But in most cases, you can determine the bad strips yourself, alternately removing them from the corresponding slots on the computer off and then starting it. In most cases, this technique gives an immediate result. If problems are identified, the straps will need to be replaced (but only so that they all belong to the same type, for example, DDR3).
Disk check
Finally, the cause of the activation of the Dumping physical memory to disk process may be the hard drive itself, on which there may be errors, or it itself began to “crumble”.
You can check the disk with the chkdsk command, supplementing it with attributes like “/ x / f / r” (without quotes) at a safe start, but it is better to use an installation or recovery disk with the command prompt from the recovery menu (Shift + F10) for accuracy.
And if the problem is physical deterioration, there are only two ways: either replace the hard drive, or try to restore it with the HDD Regenerator program , but only if the operating system is at least somehow loaded.
A few words in the end
Here were named only the most common causes of this phenomenon. There can be many more, including the effects of certain types of viruses. But they were not considered in this case, since each user must himself monitor the security of his computer.