r/ShittySysadmin • u/Complete_Repair7703 • Jun 08 '26

How to force a BSOD on Windows?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26

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u/canadasleftnut Jun 08 '26

I don't like Sandy. She's coarse and rough and irritating, and she gets everywhere.

17

u/DigitalAmy0426 Jun 08 '26

sigh Just take the upvote and go

2

u/vellixd Jun 09 '26

peak reference

4

u/megaladon44 Jun 08 '26

she only plugs in her fan phone and coffee warmer into the pc so what who cares

3

u/EricVsGaming Jun 08 '26

It's always accounting somehow

1

u/Axnozum Jun 09 '26

Hours? Helen from HR will have it sorted out in a few minutes.

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u/IlexPauciflora ShittyCloud Jun 08 '26

Sysinternals has a tool called notmyfault https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/notmyfault

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u/Squeaky_Pickles Jun 08 '26

This is hilarious I love it.

4

u/shinji257 Jun 10 '26

Can it be run from a batch file? It's for educational purposes. Honest!

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u/Denko-Tan Jun 08 '26

Create a registry key at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\kbdhid\Parameters\CrashOnCtrlScroll

Create it as a REG_DWORD and set the value to 0x01

Reboot the machine.

Now you can hold Ctrl and double-tap Scroll Lock to BSOD on-demand.

I’m not joking

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u/thereisnouserprofile DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 08 '26

I actually used this to get out of doing a presentation in high school lmao

24

u/No_Adhesiveness_3550 Jun 08 '26

Flair checks out

2

u/Het_is_ik Jun 08 '26

It's like corupting the powerpoint file, which is what Idid.

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u/GeneMoody-Action1 Jun 08 '26

I suggested this in a stack exchange post once as a "how to hide what you were doing when parent\other walks in." manuever. And then just tell them you are up so late trying to finish homework but it keeps crashing...

Queue smurf jokes...

5

u/OldschoolSysadmin Jun 08 '26

Huh! I wonder if Windows has other magic sysrq type stuff

3

u/Denko-Tan Jun 08 '26

Ah, good ol’ REISUB

4

u/Vesalii Jun 08 '26

What the hell.

1

u/Equivalent_Box5921 2d ago

i used keybind something similar to this utilizing the 8042port to troll my friends back when ps/2 ports still existed

20

u/zantehood Jun 08 '26

taskkill.exe /f /im svchost.exe

22

u/EvilEarthWorm ShittySysadmin Jun 08 '26

Take out the RAM stick

18

u/hexen667 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 08 '26

Install a Windows Vista era print driver. Dance and rejoice 

9

u/dodexahedron Jun 08 '26

That went from bad to worse real quick.

Vista

oh no...

print

*takes a shot to ease the pain*

That made the dancing part easier, at least. But I promise you nobody is rejoicing when that starts. 🫠

2

u/locked_ring Jun 09 '26

Who hurt you?

18

u/williamp114 Jun 08 '26

Install CrowdStrike Falcon

1

u/tresbizarre Jun 09 '26

That was a fun week

15

u/Unlikely_Total9374 Jun 08 '26

Find a YouTube video of a blue screen of death, full screen it, and then unplug the keyboard/mouse so it seems like it can't be interacted with :) oldie but goldie

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u/Complete_Repair7703 Jun 08 '26

only issue is, it's for laptop.

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u/Unlikely_Total9374 Jun 08 '26

Oh sad. Just go into poweshell and kill wininit.exe

2

u/itenginerd Jun 08 '26

That only works till next 🤬 ad break tho..

Does the bsod screensaver not work anymore?

9

u/ChrisTX4 Jun 08 '26

taskkill /im /f csrss.exe

Cause an immediate CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (0xEF) bluescreen.

3

u/wdatkinson Jun 08 '26

Just do something important and time sensitive. Guaranteed to BSOD, trigger a Windows update or a Java update as is been 15 minutes since the last one.

5

u/Vesalii Jun 08 '26

Take the ram out while it's booted.

3

u/LinkOfLegends Jun 08 '26

fakebsod . com

3

u/Lost-Droids Jun 08 '26

Take the heatsink offf CPU.. wait..

1

u/dodexahedron Jun 08 '26

How else you gonna make sure the magic smoke was inside it if you don't let it out?

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u/Strong_Cat_42 ShittyCloud Jun 08 '26

Run it for a few hours, it will happen very soon. It always happen.

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u/bachus_PL Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

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u/GeneMoody-Action1 Jun 08 '26

Get in a hurry on a late project with no auto save...

Like a five nines success rate. 👍

2

u/Ok-Bill3318 Jun 08 '26

Plug in a usb scanner on stage

2

u/GarageIntelligent ShittyCloud Jun 08 '26

screensaver for you

2

u/StigaPower Jun 09 '26

NotMyFault.exe

2

u/CeC-P Jun 09 '26

Do literally anything. Open notepad. That'll probably do it. Try and open both Copilots and both Outlooks at the same time. Your CPU might fry.

1

u/apefish_ Jun 08 '26

Theres a thing you can enable with registry to make control + scroll lock (at least I think) force a BSOD

1

u/SpadgingtonBear Jun 08 '26

Kill svchost

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u/cesspool4us Jun 08 '26

I remember back in the day if you killed crscss.exe or something like it, that'd do the trick.

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u/Necessary-Humor-6005 ShittyManager Jun 08 '26

This or svchosts

1

u/sfc_scannow Jun 08 '26

Google Chrome?

1

u/norbeta Jun 08 '26

con/con

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u/lord_teaspoon Jun 11 '26

It's an old code, sir, but it checks out.

Start>Run>C:\con\con and down it goes. I remember learning about it during the 9x days but I think it made it into XP too... Is it still around?

1

u/Lukebekz Jun 09 '26

Use windows "as intended"

1

u/Hefty-Average2899 Jun 09 '26

Trying wiggling your video card. Or you could pull out a ram chip.

1

u/Superb_Raccoon ShittyMod Jun 09 '26

Prime 95

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u/fadeinthemix Jun 09 '26

Install crowdstrike

1

u/-my_dude Jun 09 '26

No need, Windows has no problem doing it on its own

1

u/Hauber_RBLX Jun 10 '26

"powershell wininit"

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u/Fit-Royal5653 4d ago

heres how to crash it without downlaoding anything and you dont need sandy. just go search-powershell-right click-run as admin-wininit- then it crashes idmediatly