Simulating a BlueScreen

Question

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 th

Answer 1

In order to cause a BSOD, a driver running in kernel mode needs to cause it. If you really want to do this, you can write a driver which exposes KeBugCheck to usermode.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms801640.aspx

Thanks to Andrew below for pointing this utility out:

http://download.sysinternals.com/files/NotMyFault.zip