Friday, November 30, 2007

WinDbg and BSOD

- Downloads Windows debugger from Microsoft Web, after that install that Application at your Computer
- Find where your Windows store your debugging information.
- To find out where your windows hide your Debugging info Right Click the "My Computer" Icon.
- Select Property then go to Advanced Tab.

- At the Startup and recovery Section click the Settings button.

- Now you can see where your Windows store it's Dump file.


- For the start menu Start -> All Programs -> Debugging Tools for Windows -> WinDbg

- Now Open the dump file, go to File -> Open Crash Dump, then navigate to directory where the dump file stored.


- After you Open that file you will see lot of info. You can find the cause of BSOD, see at the bottom.


- As you can see the cause of the BSOD on my server is a file called mfehidk.sys, which a processes belongin to McAffe AV ( and that sucks)
- For detailed debugging info you can use command !analize -v , at the commad field

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