Looking for Dumpchk.exe to begin my BSoD exercise.

[JimJamie46]

Microsoft has it but do I need to download 17 megs of utilites to get the one I want?

This started about a week ago. I'm running Win 2000 v5.00 SP 4. No message when it crashes. There is an odd 1/2 inch gray band around the outside of the screen when the rest of the screen goes to blue. I suspect it is irrelevant to the issue but I have seen a lot of blue screens on other computers, none looking like this one. Seems to go randomly about every hour or so of use. I could be online or offline. Does not re-boot on its own. Have not tried safe mode. I do have a recent .dmp file although it's dated 12/19/09 and the pc has crashed several times since then.
Write Debugging Information is set to Small Memory Dump.

[Salmon Trout]

Microsoft has it but do I need to download 17 megs of utilites to get the one I want?

Dumpchk is located in the following locations:

    * Windows NT 4.0 CD-ROM:
      Support\Debug\<Platform>\Dumpchk.exe
    * Windows 2000 CD-ROM: Install the Support Tools by running Setup.exe from the Support\Tools folder on the CD-ROM. By default, Dumpchk.exe is installed to the Program Files\Support Tools folder.

[JimJamie46]

I forgot to mentiion that I don't have the CD rom.
I lost it around ten years ago.

[BC_Programmer]

what exactly are you hoping to accomplish with dumpchk

if you simply want to see what the bluescreen errors were, then they will have been written to the event log.

[JimJamie46]

I searched this forum and online (including Microsoft.com) and its what I came up with.
I was not aware of the Event Log, but I'll start there.

[BC_Programmer]

I searched this forum and online (including Microsoft.com) and its what I came up with.
I was not aware of the Event Log, but I'll start there.

OK, I wasn't sure if you were looking for anything else; basically all you can do with a dump file is either determine the STOP error code or !analyze it with WinDbg, at least as far as I am aware.

[JimJamie46]

OK, so I checked the Event Log after each of several blue screens. I've attached two of them. The blue screens occurred on 12/23 at 4:11pm, 12/24 at10:40pm,12/26 at 8:50pm and 9:06pm. Does anything pop out at you?

No negative (-) signs in the Device Manager.

I went out to the Microsoft website three days ago and loaded in all the updates they deemed necessary.

The processor and fan was full of dust, which I vacuumed, then blew out with a can of compressed air several days ago, so I don't think it is overheating.

Of all the dozen or so blue screens I've gotten just one time It showed:

Stop 0x.0000007f  0x,000000  0x.000000  0x.000000  0x.000000
Unexpected_Kernel_Mode_Trap
Beginning of Physical Memory Dump.

The computer runs very slowly at times, then picks up again.

[Saving space, attachment deleted by admin]

[cruisin702]

Have you installed any new hardware or software recently?

You can download speedfan to check your temperatures
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

[zardiw]

Reseat your RAM. Run Prime95 and MemCheck............could be a hardware error of some type......If Prime95 quits, you can try one Ram stick at a time to narrow it down .......z