I'm trying to write a windows debug utility and I would need to automatically crash a Windows machine and make a Blue Screen Of Death appear. I can obviously kill the csrss.exe process from the ta...

I am making a script to test some software that is always running and I want to test it's recovery from a BSOD. Is there a way to throw a bsod from python without calling an external script or exec...

When I attempt to start a virtual device the laptop crashes and I get a BSOD with the error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I opened up the crash log and I found the culprit to be: MODULE_NAME: IntelHax...

I was getting bored with my XP box one day, so I decided to try some of the answers to this question to see if any of them would cause a BSOD. They didn't, and they seemed like they would be the mo...

Just curious here: is it possible to invoke a Windows Blue Screen of Death using .net managed code under Windows XP/Vista? And if it is possible, what could the example code be? Just for the recor...

Purely for academic reasons. is it possible to programmatically cause a BSOD to occur under windows xp/windows 7 in C#/.NET. I'm suggesting there's got to be some dirty hack, or some vulnerabili...

I'm running into the bug where it BSODon ending debugging in the middle of a ping. I have a few ways to disable it in my (wpf) application (where I ping continuously), but sometimes I forget to do...

I have experienced BSOD every time I have resumed laptop from sleep. I have analyzed the minidump using WinDbg and the causing processes is always Slack.exe. I have googled a bit I have found https...

Can a user mode fault cause a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)? Is it possible that a memory access violation like double freeing memory can cause a blue screen or only a kernel mode exception (like a d...

I've had frequent "Critical Structure Corruption" BSODs ever since installing Windows 8.1. I even bought a new computer thinking it was just Windows 8.1 being more sensitive to a potential ha...

I am trying to make a program that records a whole bunch of things periodically. The specific reason is that if it bluescreens, a developer can go back and check a lot of the environment and see wh...

In case you have not heard this piece of code will cause a BSoD crash on x64 bit Windows 7 when ran in Safari <iframe height='18082563'></iframe> So naturally the question is how e...

Hello and good day to you. Need a bit of assitance here: Situation: I have an obscure DirectX 9 application (name and application details are irrelevant to the question) that causes blue screen...

I was looking for a way to simulate pressing the right Ctrl key in C#, it must be the right one. I know this can be done for the left one but I couldn't find anything on the right one. It is so I c...

We have ported our driver successfully to 64 bit systems a while ago. But one thing is missing, which is not very important but it was a very handy debugging feature. The callbacks registered wit...

I'm getting a lovely BSOD on bootup (STOP: 0x0000007E) from a driver I'm writing, and would like to load up the memory dump for analysis. However, it's not getting dumped anywhere. Everything is se...

I've got a customer who told me that my program (simple user-land program, not a driver) is crashing his system with a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). He says he has never encountered that with other ...

I have an application that sometimes causes a BSOD on a Win XP machine. Trying to find out more, I loaded up the resulting *.dmp file (from C:\Windows\Minidump), but get this message when in much o...

Well, fortunately I haven't written many applications that cause a BSOD but I just wonder about the usefullness of the information on this screen. Does it contain any useful information that could ...

I was reading a while ago somewhere online that you could make a custom BSOD. I don't remember where but I know it had something to with calling HalDisplayString which would switch to the bluescree...