c++ - Simulating a BlueScreen

Question

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 what was going on around that time.

My problem, is their a way to cause a bluescreen? Maybe with a windowsAPI call (ZeroMemory maybe?).

Anywhoo, if you can think of a way to cause a bluescreen on call I would be thankful.

The computer I am testing this on is designed to take stuff like this haha.

by the way the language I am using is CC++. Thank you

Answer 1

You can configure a machine to crash on a keystroke (Ctrl-ScrollLock)

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139

Since it appears that there are times when that won't work on some systems with USB keyboards, you can also get the Debugging Tools for Windows, install the kernel debugger, and use the ".crash" command to force a bugcheck.

• http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx