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Hi Been away but back on the case now. AHCI was not enabled. Changed it in BIOS now pc will not start. Cannot interupt bootup to change back in BIOS. PC attempted to restart several times but with stopcode inaccessible boot device.

Thanks again for all your advice. I have repeated sysdm.cpl and the dump folder is still showing nothing since March 14. (image attached). That is why I asked earlier where it was stored, in case I was looking in the wrong folder I know the motherboard has no driver support past Windows 7, but...

BTW, the original message #1 zip dump file extracted fine on my laptop.

Ok, so tell me if I'm correct please: The current situation is that your machine is now running fine after blue screening yesterday? Correct, but I have not switched it off / re-started yet! Unfortunately for whatever reason you cannot find the dump files for yesterday? There are dump files...

C drive scans showed no problems.

...... to clarify, there are .dmp files written yesterday on C: minidump but they are empty! (0Kb)

pagefile was enabled. So going back to #3, where can I find the dump files?

Hi I will run the drive checker later today. Can you please advise how to enable pagefile, so I can be prepared...... Thanks

Sorry, we posted at the same time! I do not know what pagefile is.

....... and I have administrator rights and files are not hidden.

Thank you for replying kemical. I checked the C drive using properties>tools>error checking. No problems reported. It failed to run chkdsk from start>run. I followed you instructions re the dump files. But I cannot find the resultant file in minidump or anywhere else! Any suggestions? Thanks again.

PC attempted startup many times, reporting different errors, but "driver overran stack buffer" repeated several times. No previous history of problems since installing 10 over 1 year ago. Eventually started after multiple attempts over several hours, but I had not changed any settings. All...