Looking for Script to check a device’s Event viewer for why a device will blue screen or BSOD

A user asked if anyone had a script to check the device Event Viewer for why a device will blue screen or BSOD. Wouter replied that although complicated, tools for BSOD Analysis may be found through a simple online search. Dennis mentioned that Windows Error Reporting (WER) may be used as a source of data, also providing a screenshot of a proof of concept script as an example. Eugene asked for clarification on whether or not a workflow can be created for alerts on BSODs.

Read the entire ‘Leveraging Windows Error Reporting for BSOD Alerts’ thread below:

Happy Friday

Quickly wanted to check if anyone has script to check the device Event viewer for why a device will blue screen or BSOD

Saw a blog post to check event if 41 but seems to be only giving an alert

I would like to see why

I believe we’ve looked at this but the analysis of a dump file is pretty complicated

@member thanks for the quick reply

I was looking at this block and the script here that can grab the code event viewer logs

https://www.controlup.com/resources/blog/entry/seven-must-have-reports-to-assess-your-employees-os-and-applications/

Eugene, when I wrote that article I looked in to tools that would BSOD analysis tools and as Wouter said they are pretty complicated and without extensively using them I didn’t feel comfortable recommend one of them. If you google "Crash Dump Analyzer" you can see them.

So there is no way to create a workflow that will alert on BSOD that alert will then trigger a power shell script that will run a get-event to see what could possibly be the reason for the BSOD ?

Edge will start using windows error reporting (WER) as the source of BSOD data. I believe this includes the most obvious causes of a blue screen.

The screenshot below is from a proof of concept script in one of our demo environments.

In this case it’s the sysinternals notmyfault tool.

I don’t remember timing on this. But @member might know

Cool stuff Dennis!

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