[Question] Where are the BSOD Error Logs?

[calorifer]

Hello, I got my first BSOD on my system (Windows XP SP2 with all updates) and it restarted before i could see what happened. I disabled the automatic restarting but i never got it again and i can't find any logs of it. I checked the events log and there's nothing there, i found on google that WatchDog is suposed to log bsod errors but i can't find anything related to watchdog on my computer and there are no .wdl files in my windows dir.

This is really stressing me because this has never happened before, i never got a bsod on any of the systems that i maintain/work on and i got one on MY computer. I ran ram tests and hdd test and everything came back clean. I was watching an embeded video in internet explorer when the bsod happened and i can't find out what caused it.

[Andromeda43]

Hello Calorifer,

Just one BSOD?

That's surely NOT enough to worry about.

There was probably some bad code in that thing you were looking at.

If one of my customers called me with that same problem, my response would have to be "Forgetaboutit!".

Whenever something weird like that happens, it's a very good time to give your system a 'physical'.

Do a full system cleanup and then perform full scans with your AV and AS software.

Follow up the cleaning out of the junk and AV and AS scans with a full Defrag.

Now, quit worrying about it and go have some FUN!

Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?

Andromeda43 B)

[cluberti]

If you are to get event log messages when a machine dumps, you need to make sure that write an event to the system log is checked in the startup and recovery settings, as well as at least generating a kernel dump. If you are set to small dump (or your crash was a STOP 0x1A), you are likely not going to get anything written to the event log.

[Takeshi]

If I remember correctly, kernel dump requires the pagefile to be set appropriately.