If you’ve recently experience persistent BSOD on windows vista or windows xp, but don’t have any information except for the useless stop error codes like 0×0000007E, taking a peek into the windows crash dump or minidump file might give you some vital clues as to what’s causing the crash.
- Download and install Debugging Tools for Windows (64bit version here)
- After installing it, run the application WinDbg.
- File -> Open Crash Dump
- Look under c:\windows\Minidump and open the most recent .dmp file.
- Once it is loaded, something like this should come up:
Probably caused by : ifsmount.sys ( ifsmount+cbf0 )
Deal with the file, and you’re fixed!
