1. Avoid these at all costs! :-)

Recovery

• Write an Event to system log
• Send an Administrative alert - sends alert to Admins when STOP error occurs
• Write debugging information to: (always select) writes to MEMORY.DMP file.
• Checkbox to overwrite existing file for write debug information. If you uncheck this, NT WILL NOT WRITE A FILE.
• Automatically reboot (do this only when write debugging info to has been selected)

STOP error is when a fatal error occurs and NT stops all processes and requires that the computer be restarted.  For Recovery: to create a dump file, PAGEFILE.SYS must be on your systemroot drive and it must be at least the size of your physical memory (RAM).

Specifications

• is not installed by default. It is located on the NT CD under  \support \debug\ i386.
• Run dumpexam directly from the CD or make sure it is kept in it's "i386 container"
• Requirements to run directly from CD with no parameters:
• NT 4 only (probably NT 5 as well)
• no hot fixes or SP's applied since stop error
• have configured in System Applet
• DUMPEXAM creates file MEMORY.TXT.
• Other DUMP utilities include: "dumpflop" (writes a memory dump file into segments to floppy disks) and "dumpchk"(verifies that a memory dump file has been created correctly). Information about these utilities and more information on deciphering the MEMORY.TXT file can be found in Chapter 39, NT4 Workstation RK, page 1129.