programmatically trigger BSOD

Question

Purely for academic reasons.

is it possible to programmatically cause a BSOD to occur under windows xp/windows 7 in C#/.NET.

I\'m suggesting there\'s got to

Answer 1

You could make the process critical and then kill it

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

then:

[DllImport("ntdll.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern void RtlSetProcessIsCritical(UInt32 v1, UInt32 v2, UInt32 v3);
System.Diagnostics.Process.EnterDebugMode();
RtlSetProcessIsCritical(1, 0, 0);
System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().Kill();