Provoke a blue screen of death on command
3 September 2001 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback OffIt is possible to force a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) if this is needed. It can be useful when testing the recovery abilities of your 3rd party application or cluster service.
To activate this create this new DWORD in the registry:
To activate this create this new DWORD in the registry:
After making the change and performed a reboot, then hold down the right CTRL key and press ScrollLock Twice (Doesn't work with USB keyboards). It will cause a BSOD with the following message:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Services \i8042prt \Parameters]
CrashOnCtrlScroll=1
More info MS KB Q244139MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH (0xE2)
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Updated: 4 October 2007
Comment by Jellybean - 13 February 2010 @ 1:37 Reply
Yes, and if you do this on windows 7 or Vista, then reboot, report it, it tells you how to remove this registry key.