BSOD in C# (user-mode)

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Hello!
Please, help me! I need to write the code in C# to call the BSOD from user-mode =)

I think the unmanaged code should be used for this, yes? =)

Thx for any ideas!

My best regards =)

Posted 30-Jul-11 10:20am

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Philippe Mori 30-Jul-11 19:10pm

Managed code is effectively safer than unmanaged code... but even in unmanaged code, it should not be possible to generate a BSOD. If an hole would get found, then a security fix would probably be issued. And if such holes exist, they would probably be dependent on the OS and the hardware of a particular computer.

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-07-30T10:27:00

Solution 1

You can't "call" a BSOD. Something really screwed up has to happen on your system before you see one of those. WTF are you trying to do?

Posted 30-Jul-11 10:27am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 2 · 2011-07-30T12:43:00

I may be a little wrong about this, but, IMHO, there's no such thing as a BSOD in user-mode code.

You'd have to, somehow, trick a driver into falling on its face. I don't think that it's possible from a normal user account. Annything you write may have to be run from an admin-level account.

Philippe Mori · Answer 3 · 2011-07-30T13:24:00

Solution 4

It is possible to generate a BSOD using the keyboard after having required changes to the system. Developers can uses that to check how their application handle such crash.

Windows feature lets you generate a memory dump file by using the keyboard[^]

Posted 30-Jul-11 13:24pm

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