Frequently experience application crashes, blue screen errors or sudden reboot problems? For every crash, a memory dump file will be generated by Windows, which can be analyzed using a debugger in order to determine the root cause for the crash. For those who don’t know how to use a debugger, download WhoCrashed Home Edition, a free Crash Dump Analyzer program from Resplendence Software. This program checks for drivers which have been crashing your computer by performing post-mortem Crash Dump analysis, and presents all gathered information in a comprehensible way.
Let’s assume your system crashed recently and the following Error Reporting dialog popped up on next restart.
To analyze the crash dump, download WhoCrashed Home Edition and install it.
Run WhoCrashed and click the Analyze button.
You’ll be prompted to download the Debugging Tools (required to analyze crash dumps) from Microsoft, as it’s not installed with Windows by default.
If you don’t already have the Windows Debugging Tools installed, click Download the required file from Microsoft site now.
After the Windows Debugging Tools is installed, the crash analysis report should now be ready.
In this case, the standard Microsoft module had crashed, as the crash dump in the above example was self-generated for purposes of illustration. In your case, it could be the network card, video, audio driver or any other driver causing the crash.
This is also a Professional version of WhoCrashed available, which can be purchased if you need to use this software in a commercial environment. The professional edition of WhoCrashed also allows analysis of crashdumps on remote drives and computers on the network and offers more detailed analysis.
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This is a great tool that works.
Anyone who has troubles with it is either (a) an idiot (b) doesnt understand what this program does, or what to look for.
This tool is useless if you are only able to boot into safemode. It will not install.
Excellent tool. Saves all the pain of using windbg natively. Excellent product for quick driver BSOD analysys.
Jatin make sure you have win debug installed (search google) for your OS. Colin Looks like a driver is crashing when you machine is going into sleep mode. Make sure all your drivers are up to date adn try disabling non essential drivers and forcing a sleep and see if the problem goes away.
was useless when i click analyse doesnt do anything no diff it makes
I was delighted to read about WhoCrashed, as I’ve been getting crashes at night when my Vist Home PC goes to sleep.
Short term I have disabled Sleep mode, and it hasn’t creashed for a week now.
So I was excited that I might have a solution. I ran the prog, and waited
” …The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Likely the culprit is another driver on your system which cannot be identified. ”
It told me to search the bug code, but Google gave me 0 hits on
0x9F (0×3, 0x84A4BB70, 0x8932E030, 0xB1760F00)
So no nearer a solution
The only other prob I’m having is that Windows search won’t start. Could that cause it? I’ve tried al the help I can find on that one.
Great, thanks.