The touch of (blue) death

As part of a time critical system I need to be able to cause a XP blue screen of death. Using C and C++ I tried writing to random memory locations, sending bad data to the 3D card. I can't seam to generate the interrupt.

Does anyone know how to trigger the blue screen of death interrupt?
Is there a windows API call that will let me do it?
Can I trap the interrupt with my own code?

 

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XP has a blue screen of death? I've never experienced it before are you sure? Usually my computer just shuts down automatically or freezes.

Try playing around with your drivers if you are really brave. I wouldn't.

http://forums.windrivers.com/printthread.php?t=55623 might help

 

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I heard that there was no blue screen of death on XP(I think because there is no dos). Although, I am good/bad enough to occasionally get a gray screen of death, but it’s hard to describe, and I have no idea how to duplicate my actions.

 

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Thanks §outh§tar the link was very useful. It worked on 2000, I will have to try it on XP

XP does have a blue screen of death. You can have XP reset or blue screen. Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery (settings) / System failure (auto restart OFF). I can make a blue screen by putting a stuffed RAM card in, but this is highly unpredictable.
In the end I wired a cable to the to reset switch and now the trainer can be out of the way and a trigger reset at just the worst possible moment.