Yesterday morning I had a BSOD in Windows 7 x64 but when I looked for the dump or minidump files, neither was there (the last one was precisely a month ago yesterday, and did create a MEMORY.DMP file) ...

If you're talking about the files in \windows\minidump ... they contain information recorded at the time of an OS crash ("blue screen of death"). The stack of the current thread, some minimal info ...

Some PC users have reported the issue whereby when booting their system or while using the computer, the Windows 11 or Windows 10 system randomly crashes and displays ...