Forcing a blue screen

NTFSD
1

I have seen my computer hang a few times and I’d like to force a blue
screen/crash dump to diagnose in case it’s my file system minifilter at
fault. I’ve read a few places on line that you can set a CrashOnCtrlScroll
value under i8042prt/Parameters, which will enable a blue screen by clicking
the right-Ctrl key and the Scroll Lock keys.

It works great on Win XP, but doesn’t seem to work on Vista 64-bit or
Win2008 64-bit. Does anyone know if there is a new/other method of
triggering a blue screen/dump from the keyboard?

Thanks

Doug

2

Doug wrote:

I have seen my computer hang a few times and I’d like to force a blue
screen/crash dump to diagnose in case it’s my file system minifilter at
fault. I’ve read a few places on line that you can set a
CrashOnCtrlScroll value under i8042prt/Parameters, which will enable a
blue screen by clicking the right-Ctrl key and the Scroll Lock keys.

It works great on Win XP, but doesn’t seem to work on Vista 64-bit or
Win2008 64-bit. Does anyone know if there is a new/other method of
triggering a blue screen/dump from the keyboard?

I have used Mark’s BANG! CrashOnDemand -utility for Win Vista & Win 7
bluescreen-“fethcing”.
It is not a pure cause-BSOD-with-keyboard-combo-tool, but if you wan’t
to try it, you can find it from magnicifient OSROnline-url:
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=153

Br,
-Mikko

3

Have you tried with a USB keyborad?

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc266483.aspx

Cheers
Faik

4

Ahhh, didn’t realize there were different settings for USB vs PS/2
keyboards. Thanks!

From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Faik Riza
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:27 AM
To: Windows File Systems Devs Interest List
Subject: Re: [ntfsd] Forcing a blue screen

Have you tried with a USB keyborad?

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc266483.aspx

Cheers
Faik

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