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BSOD - cannot initialise disk for crash dump
From yesterday, something made the PC show the BSOD.
Since then, then PC boots up and gets into windows OK. However, within only a minute or two, the HDD light will turn solid and the PC will stop responding to mouse clicks (though it will show the mouse movement). Within a minute or two after that, the BSOD arrives.
What I've noticed, is that even with the settings turned on for a memory dump, it never produces one (see attached photo) as it gets stuck on 'Initializing disk for crash dump...', as such, the SF tool cannot find a dump file.
I've uploaded the SF tool output anyway - in case it can provide something.
Here's what I've also done:
1) updated all drivers and SSD firmware - same behaviour occurs
2) replaced SSD primary drive with SATA drive (cloned image of SSD) - same behaviour occurs.
3) I have 4 memory modules and I ran both memtest86+ and windows memory diagnostics with the individual DIMMs in. One caused a BSOD during the Windows diagnostics, however, retest did not produce same result. Otherwise, no other errors reported. Booting with any combination of the 4 modules produces the same behaviour.