What causes the Blue Screen of Death to strike?
If you’re trying to troubleshoot a BSOD, you should use Driver Verifier. Driver Verifier is a powerful tool and can do lots of stuff, like run drivers in an isolated memory pool, without sharing memory with other components, provide extreme memory pressure, validate parameters, unload checking, and more. To start using Verifier, locate the executable and start it. On Windows XP, click Start > Run > Verifier. On Windows 7, type Verifier in the inline search box and hit Enter. Once Verifier is started, you will need to configure it. You can create standard settings, which should work for most people, or configure custom settings, mainly useful for code developers. You can also display tasks, delete tasks or display information for currently verified drivers. In the next menu screen, you need to choose which drivers you want to check: unsigned drivers, drivers built for older versions of Windows or all drivers. Since you do not yet know what the problem is really about, select all. The ne
