{"id":8240,"date":"2006-05-18T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/dump-switch-support-for-windows\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:28","slug":"dump-switch-support-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/dump-switch-support-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump Switch Support for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah! I finally came across this again&#8230; I&#8217;d been looking for it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/system\/CEC\/dmpsw.mspx\">Dump Switch Support for Windows<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a schematic of a NMI switch which fits into a PCI slot, and it&#8217;s provided by Microsoft. Quite nifty, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Also, add DWORD <tt>CrashOnCtrlScroll<\/tt> set to a value of <tt>1<\/tt> under <tt>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\i8042prt\\Parameters<\/tt> to enable manual crashing when holding the right CTRL key and pressing Scroll Lock twice.<\/p>\n<p>(This is documented for my purposes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah! I finally came across this again&#8230; I&#8217;d been looking for it: Dump Switch Support for Windows Yes, it&#8217;s a schematic of a NMI switch which fits into a PCI slot, and it&#8217;s provided by Microsoft. Quite nifty, in my opinion. Also, add DWORD CrashOnCtrlScroll set to a value of 1 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\i8042prt\\Parameters to enable\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13389,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions\/13389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}