I have had some irritating system lockups with my computer lately and I
am looking for ways to analyze the problem to see if I can pinpoint the
offending application or driver. I have several mini dumps on the
computer but unfortunately I don't have the tool to even open them. My
computer uses an AMD Athlon dual core 64 bit processor but I'm running
32 bit Vista Ultimate. Following Microsoft's instructions I downloaded
the x64 debugger file for amd processors. When I tried to install it I
got a message that it is not for use on my system and I'm told to
contact my processor vendor (or something to that effect).

I find no info on the AMD site to help me with this issue.

Has anyone else had such a problem? If so or even if you have an idea
I'd love to hear from you.


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Cecebee

you are truing to run a 64 bit program on a 32 bit os.

you need to download the 32 bit debugger to run on the 32 bit os.

have you checked the event logs and other diagnostic help already collected by vista.








"Cecebee" wrote in message ...

I have had some irritating system lockups with my computer lately and I
am looking for ways to analyze the problem to see if I can pinpoint the
offending application or driver. I have several mini dumps on the
computer but unfortunately I don't have the tool to even open them. My
computer uses an AMD Athlon dual core 64 bit processor but I'm running
32 bit Vista Ultimate. Following Microsoft's instructions I downloaded
the x64 debugger file for amd processors. When I tried to install it I
got a message that it is not for use on my system and I'm told to
contact my processor vendor (or something to that effect).

I find no info on the AMD site to help me with this issue.

Has anyone else had such a problem? If so or even if you have an idea
I'd love to hear from you.


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Cecebee

Thanks for the reply Mikey. I had the same feeling as what you
expressed. I read and reread the download instructions but I may have
misinterpreted something. It sounded clear to me that if I was using a
64bit processor, even if to run on a 32 bit system, that I should use
the x64 debug download. I am just another dumb engineer so maybe I got
it wrong.

I'll download the 32 bit debugger package and see if it installs.
Probably should have done that to start with.

Thanks again.


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Cecebee

Mikey, as I suspected, you were %100 correct. I feel like a real dummy
for not having tried the 32 bit installation sooner. I will now go back
to the Microsoft download site and see if I can find out where my
language skills deserted me.


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Cecebee

Cecebee wrote:
I have had some irritating system lockups with my computer lately and I
am looking for ways to analyze the problem to see if I can pinpoint the
offending application or driver. I have several mini dumps on the
computer but unfortunately I don't have the tool to even open them. My
computer uses an AMD Athlon dual core 64 bit processor but I'm running
32 bit Vista Ultimate. Following Microsoft's instructions I downloaded
the x64 debugger file for amd processors. When I tried to install it I
got a message that it is not for use on my system and I'm told to
contact my processor vendor (or something to that effect).

I find no info on the AMD site to help me with this issue.

Has anyone else had such a problem? If so or even if you have an idea
I'd love to hear from you.




You may also want to check your memory, first that it is seated properly
and has not worked loose and second using a test program

http://www.memtest.org/

Thanks Charlie. Actually I have done that and I also ran the Microsoft
memory diagnostic for several hours to do an in depth test of the
memory. The results I got were positive.


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Cecebee

Cecebee wrote:
Thanks Charlie. Actually I have done that and I also ran the Microsoft
memory diagnostic for several hours to do an in depth test of the
memory. The results I got were positive.



Well good, I mentioned it only because I've seen some strange effects
when memory is failing and of course it can easily point one in the
wrong direction.