force BSOD on a server

[jfish]

anyone aware of any tool that can force a BSOD on a Windows 2008 R2 server

 

[lude1962]

hammer?

 

[Burned_Alive]

A magnet!

 

[Gaz1988]

Just install windows, that'll work.

 

[anything I don't mind]

Look in registry for winlogin folder and remove all sub-entries. This will break the server.

 

[jfish]

I managed to force a blue screen, if you kill the crss task in task manager this will blue screen the server

 

[binaryknight]

question is why would you want to bsod the server

 

[jfish]

question is why would you want to bsod the server

I am working with SCUM opps I mean SCOM or Microsoft Systems Centre Operations Manager and writing rules and alerts and wanted to do one for BSOD so it can get alerted.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

For posterity, here is the official way of doing it:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff545499.aspx

I'm using a VM uses the USB driver (the linked article has options for PS2 and USB keyboards).

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx