Windows 2000 Server will not do a memory dump

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4 machines, all domain controllers in one domain. Two are active, two are
standby. The active ones crash, about every
7 to 10 days. The standby ones (which are just receiving FRS updates) do
not crash.

Machines are running Windows 2000 SP4, FRS to replicate files, IIS for a FTP
server, a service to process the incoming data, an application to show the
data (via terminal services), a service to collect audit records. There is
also a bandwidth
limiting program to keep the network bandwidth down (so FRS updates do not
swamp the slow network).

We would like to know why they are crashing.
We are getting event 6008 "The previous shutdown was unexpected", and normal
sequence of start up event entries
after that. We are trying to set up a crashdump or minidump. We are not
getting any dumps at all. Dump file locations
are set up
d:\memory.dump
minidump directory \winnt\minidump (which does not exist - do we have to
create it?)
Machines set to not reboot on crash (because we want to see what's happening
now, they used to reboot automatically)
Machines are set to do a small dump on crash.

We get nothing.
What are we missing to get the dump information?


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