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Computer crashing can't figure out how to create crash dump.
I am very new to computer as I never really had a computer issue before.
I had this laptop for about 3 years now "http://www.cnet.com/laptops/sony-vaio-vpcf126fm-b/4505-3121_7-34121949.html" and about 2 years ago my computer crashed and received a Hard-Drive failure is prominent please back up your disk. I never had any issues after that, my laptop would start up with that message and I would press F1 to skip the message and normally boot and and play my games and whatever. About 2 months ago, my computer started to crash every-time I play a game, League of Legends, Aura Kingdom, Runes of Magics... etc.
So about a month ago I opened up my laptop thinking that the computer was overheating so I cleaned out the fans and applied new thermal paste, and it stop crashing. Now it starts to crash again and I want to try to figure out how to create a crash dump and see why my laptop only crashes when I play games, I can watch anime 24/7 and it would not crash but only when I play a graphic intensive game. I want to try to create a crash dump and upload to the forums so someone can try to help me but I'm not really that smart when it comes to computers so I didn't really understand this guide "https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/174459-dump-files-configure-windows-create-bsod.html"
I click properties on my computer and went to advance and set it to create kernal memory dump, then I booted up my game and my computer crashed. But I can't figure out how to get the file, I tried using the SF diagnostic toool but I'm clueless.
I'm not sure if my computer blue screens thought, the screen turns black and it turns off, when I boot it back up the only msg it has it the same message I've been having for years which is Hard-drive is failing back up your disk, press f1 to continue.