DavidR
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It was only too large fir the chest because it exceeded the pre-set maximum file size (about 16MB) to be sent to the chest and the memory.dmp file would basically be a copy of everything in memory at the time of the BSOD.
If it isn’t recreated on the next BSOD then you would have to look at the Vista Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery, Settings (that is for XP I don’t know if it is the same for Vista) to see if a Kernel memory dump is selected, otherwise it just creates minidump files in the c:\windows\minidump folder. So you need to check the settings and the minidump folder and see if there are any corresponding files in there (roughly the same date-time stamp as the BSOD.
Check this MS KB article for the 0X0000008E stop error code scroll down to find that error code http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935806.