Hi – so I’m not exactly the most computer savvy person. As a matter of fact, I freak out the least thing. Computers elude me completely. Today I turned on my laptop after it being in Hibernate mode since last night (a good 14 hours or more, probably more) and a blue screen came up with lots of computer language, but at the bottom of that it said “Dumping of physical memory” and it had a counting timer. It must have only reached 5 and then it went black and gave me the option to either continue with the resume or restart. What does this mean? This isn’t the first time it has happened.
I appreciate ideas about what could be the problem. It can’t be good, whatever it is. Maybe, would it be advisable to get it checked out professionally? Ideas, please?
Many thanks.
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Blue screens aren’t good, but they’re not a death sentence. Sometimes, Windows corrupts itself without even having a virus….
I’d say go with restart, resume leads to problems occasionally. I’d say it could either be a RAM issue or an unstable OS due to a bad registry. Try http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html to fix up some errors. If this doesn’t help, there could be a chance your RAM is fried and causing these errors; it is a very rare occurrence, but possible.
Anyways, dumping physical memory just means Windows is trying to collect extraneous garbage that has corrupted the OS.
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run virus scans with avg or avast and a malware scan with malwarebyte- make sure you update those programs before you scan. what you got was the blue screen of death(bsod) and I feel you have a problem with your hibernate function. I would just not use the hibernate fuction, but if you want to try to fix it google “bsod after hibernate” followed by you type of windows. If it ever happens again write down the string of numbers above where it says dumping physical memory. That is the error code. I bet it is a windows problem. If not most likely a power supply problem leading to cpu or ram problems. If you want to test you ram download and burn to disk memtest. How old is the laptop, which windows are you using? We need this info as well as the make and model of the laptop.
The operating system has corrupt system 32 files, you need to do a system repair or install using a set of recovery disc before it crashes. Back up any thing of importance before it crashes or you do a complete new system install.
i would advise you not to leave your computer on hibernate …….oh and turn it off and on again
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