{"id":841,"date":"2008-12-18T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2008-12-18T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:59:04","slug":"microsoft-dump-switch-support-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/microsoft-dump-switch-support-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Dump Switch Support for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/system\/sysinternals\/dmpsw.mspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/80352-1\/dmpsw1.gif\" height=473 width=628 border=0 alt=\"Schematic from Microsoft's article Dump Switch Support for Windows.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Known mostly as a software company, it surprised me a bit when I came across the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/system\/sysinternals\/dmpsw.mspx\">Dump Switch Support for Windows<\/a> at Microsoft&#8217;s site a few years ago. This site has a schematic (which appears to have been done in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ms_Paint\">Paint<\/a>, detailing a PCI device for generating an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-maskable_interrupt\">NMI<\/a> to force a machine to bugcheck and dump.<\/p>\n<p>Many servers have NMI switches built in, but it&#8217;s quite nice to be able to add one to a PCI slot bearing device of your choice. I think it&#8217;d be nice to know how to do this on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PCI_Express\">PCI Express<\/a>, but it&#8217;d take me a little time to figure out how. It&#8217;s probably not as easy as this implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known mostly as a software company, it surprised me a bit when I came across the article Dump Switch Support for Windows at Microsoft&#8217;s site&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/microsoft-dump-switch-support-for-windows\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft: Dump Switch Support for Windows<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-electronics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}