Advanced Crash Dump Analysis
The preceding section leverages Driver Verifier to create crashes that the debugger’s automated analysis engine can resolve. You might still encounter cases where you cannot get a system to produce easily analyzable crashes, and, if so, you will need to execute manual analysis to try to determine what the problem is. Here are some examples of basic commands that can provide clues during crash analysis. The Debugging Tools for Windows help file provides complete documentation on these and other commands as well as examples of how to use them during crash analysis:
Use the !cpuinfo command to display a list of processors the system is configured to use.
Use the processor ID with the k command to display the stack trace ...
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