Defrag Tools

S1 E162012

WinDbg - Driver Verifier

Episode Synopsis

Not all Blue Screens of Death are easy to debug! Sometimes, you need to enable extra checking to help catch a buggy device driver. In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen discuss using Driver Verifier in conjunction with WinDbg to track down a driver which is corrupting kernel mode pool memory. Debugger commands used: !analyze -v .trap ub dp dps dc kv Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.

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