There is an excellent tutorial that was made by Mike (writhziden) that is full of tips for beginners. It'' take you through how to analyse not only a dump file but the msinfo file etc.
How I Debug Blue Screen Crashes
You can look at this both ways. That does give one person's opinion on how to perform a quick flick through the output of
analyze -v, yes, and it will often arrive at a solution after this and that has been tried and failed to make an improvement.
However, if you want to become truly great at BSOD analysis, rather than just "yet another" person who can look at the
analyze -v output, you need to read Vir Gnarus's posts I linked to above, because that sort of information is simply not available at Seven Forums.
To take a particular example, you can see Vir Gnarus's posts sometimes home in on something which has got to be a failing CPU, for example, whereas people who only read writhziden's tutorials, "basic BSOD analysis" will often try updating this and that driver, get stuck, ask for hardware diagnostics, and only then realise that the CPU is failing.
It really depends on whether "basic BSOD analysis" is enough for you, because yes it usually arrives at the answer
eventually, but it isn't something in which I could be proud of my abilities, but that is only my own, personal view.
