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 of the readout when doing so: Symbols can not be loaded because symbol path is not initialized. * * The Symbol Path can be set by: ...
From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317277: If Windows XP restarts because of a serious error, the Windows Error Reporting tool prompts you... How can my app know that "Windows XP has restarted because of a serious error"? ...
I've written some C# code that checks whether a device is present on any SerialPort by issuing a command on the port and listening for a reply. When I just set the port speed, open the port, get the serial stream and start processing, it works 100% of the time. However, some of our devices work at different speeds and I am trying to prob...
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 record, this is not for any malicious purpose, I am just wondering what kind of code it would take to actually kill the operating system as specifi...
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?). Anywho...
I created a class that handles serial port asynchronously. I use it to communicate with a modem. I have no idea why, but sometimes, when I close my application, I get the Blue Screen and my computer restarts. I logged my code step by step, but when the BSOD appeared, and my computer restarted, the file into which I was logging data conta...
Hi I have an application that I have converted to Delphi 2009 I have "String format checking" On and the standard memory manager. I downloaded the MS debugging tools at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/install64bit.mspx and got some debug files but I am not sure what to make of them. I would like some pointers on where ...
I develop using Java 5 and 6 on Intellij IDEA 7 and 9M1. From time to time (during run/compile) my Mac (10.5.7) will die with a Bluescreen of death. Has anybody else had this issue and somehow managed to solve it? If so, how? Any suggestions other than running the IDE in a VM? ...
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 bluescreen and print a message. I tried calling HalDisplayString from a simple driver but nothing happens. I was wondering if anyone could point me in ...
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 help me to find the error in my code? If so, what do I need, exactly? And then, the system restarts and probably has written some error log o...
My code: var list = new LinkedList<int>(); var ramCounter = new PerformanceCounter("Memory", "Available MBytes"); while (true) { for(int i = 0; i < 1000 * 1000; i++) list.AddLast(0); Console.WriteLine(ramCounter.NextValue()); } Questions: The documentation seems to say I can use a PerformanceCounter only as an Administrator,...
It's a simple problem. Sometimes Windows will just halt everything and throws a BSOD. Game over, please reboot to play another game. Or whatever. Annoying but not extremely serious... What I want is simple. I want to catch the BSOD when it occurs. Why? Just for some additional crash logging. It's okay that the system goes blue but when ...
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 program and that he can reproduce it easily with mine. The BSOD is of type CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION (0x000000F4) with object type 0x3 (pro...
Are there any tools that would help us read the contents in a Memory Dump files that is created when there is a BSoD? ...
We just got cool new workstations - 8 GB, 24 inches screens, Vista x64 and a lot of power -- I just love it ! But we are facing some really annoying problems : BSODs ! We found out that the instant you install Kaspersky MP4 on a workstation, you can get BSOD while debugging ASPX pages. You can get one BSOD in a week or three in an hour....
We have a .Net application consisting of mixed managed and unmanaged code. We have a number of reports of users getting BSOD while using our application. These blue screens happen on different versions of Windows. Mostly XP but one user claims it happens on Windows 7. Some users see it happening when doing one thing, other see it hap...
I am trying to create +5 threads synchronously so there shouldn't be any concurrency error. Code: System.Threading.Thread t = new System.Threading.Thread(proc); t.Start();//==t.BlueScreen(); t.Join(); Is darkness a feature ? I am doing something wrong? OS:Microsoft windows vista(unfortunately) x64 Language:C# 3.0|4.0 .Net version:3...
How to detect the process that caused a GPF? ...
Hello again, I've run into a problem with an application I'm developing in C#/.NET. A problem I can't trace down because it causes my system to crash with a BSOD. Here's the minidump: 060310-27066-01.dmp 03.06.2010 19:47:39 SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION 0x0000003b 00000000c0000005 fffff8000306d4d0 fffff8800b107640 0000000000000000 ntoskrnl....