How to induce a BSOD

[wkingsnorth]

As in the title, I need to induce a bsod quickly and without damaging my system for a little project I'm working on. Best way to do it?

 

[kilohawk]

task manager, and just recklessly end processes
(i'm not taking responsibility if this causes problems though )

 

[lamboman]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/makebsodxp.htm

Then you can simply undo this when you're done

 

[Deleted member 77746]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/makebsodxp.htm

Then you can simply undo this when you're done

BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2

 

[Doomedspeed]

As in the title, I need to induce a bsod quickly and without damaging my system for a little project I'm working on. Best way to do it?

Im interested, how will this help you with your project?

 

[wkingsnorth]

Im interested, how will this help you with your project?

Just need a picture of one

 

[wkingsnorth]

I've decided the easiest way is to get a picture from the web and make it full screen, but windows live photo gallery has decided that in slideshow mode I want it to zoom and show different parts of the photo when it feels like it, rather than just the full image :/

 

[Leprechaun312]

You could just google bsod screenshot there a a few images of bsods that aren't taken with a camera

 

[Sin_Chase]

Use something like RW everything and change a CPU MSR variable to something stupid

I edit the C-States on my Laptop CPU to prevent whine but you could set the CPU to an invalid C-State and this would almost certainly BSOD the system. You will need to read the white-papers/tech details on the CPU you are using to get the register address for C-States though.

 

[Idleman]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558

Try this.

 

[ZZZAC]

download a cpu over clocking program, raise the clock speeds very high
easy
job done

 

[Sin_Chase]

download a cpu over clocking program, raise the clock speeds very high
easy
job done

Yeah because that's totally safe.

 

[dave_beast]

Try and boot up with a very low CPU voltage

 

[Leprechaun312]

Yeah because that's totally safe.

Only if he puts it too like something crazy like 7 with stock core voltage but if he were to raise it like 500mhz without much of a core voltage change then stress the cou it ould easily bsod

 

[J.B]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558

Try this.

This is what I came in to post

 

[Confused Stu]

Go into Device Manager (Start > Right click "Computer" > Manage > Device Manager). Update the driver for one of your components, manually select a driver, select the wrong one (for example, tell the PC your sound chip requires a graphics driver) and it should blue screen nicely and safely.

During Windows boot pressing F8 and selecting "Last known good profile" should get you back up and running, but I can't promise. Try it and let us know if this works, or if you had to do a fresh Windows install to fix!

 

[Leprechaun312]

Go into Device Manager (Start > Right click "Computer" > Manage > Device Manager). Update the driver for one of your components, manually select a driver, select the wrong one (for example, tell the PC your sound chip requires a graphics driver) and it should blue screen nicely and safely.

During Windows boot pressing F8 and selecting "Last known good profile" should get you back up and running, but I can't promise. Try it and let us know if this works, or if you had to do a fresh Windows install to fix!

i dont think that would work surely if you install the wrong drivers the device just doesnt work

 

[Confused Stu]

i dont think that would work surely if you install the wrong drivers the device just doesnt work

Depends how vital the component is. I did this with the IR input on a Blackgold TV card (PCI-E) to see if it was causing an issue and the PC BSOD'ed straight away. After rebooting to the last known good profile, I switched my brain back on and simply disabled the device.

By the way, turned out the device wasn't causing the issue, a remnant of a Hauppauge driver was.

 

[wkingsnorth]

I just took one from the internet and made it fullscreen & took a picture

 

[Deleted member 77746]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=22063584&postcount=4

I posted it in the 4th post. Gosh!