Physical memory dumps are part of the debugging process, albeit not usually for an end user, but rather a developer (although I'm not sure what kind of tools exist under Windows for them). What it does is it stores the memory contents to disk so they can be analyzed after a reboot. So dumping memory isn't by itself a "problem" but rather a symptom. There are a lot of potential catastrophes that may cause OSs to dump physical memory.
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