Anyone know of good BSOD Books / Courses????

[Shintaro]

Hi,

I was just looking for more Books and/or courses on BSOD analysis.

Dmitry Vostokov has a few books in PDF that can be bought from lulu.com http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/dumpanalysis?searchTerms=&pageOffset=1
His information appears, to me at least, low on explanation.

There is the MS 70-660 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-660&Locale=en-us
And course material 50155A: Win Internals for IT (5 Days) 50154A: Win Internals for programmers (5 Days)
But I get the impression that I need to understand Win32 a whole better.

Of course I have Mark Russinovich's books (6th Ed and 3rd Ed. Probably need the 5th Ed.).

What are peoples thoughts on the above?

Regards,
Andrew

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Here's a place to start.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Resolving-stop-blue-screen-errors-in-Windows-7
or Google ...BSOD where there are some you tube instructional views.
Dennis

 

[Shintaro]

Mate,

Thanks for your responce, but I was after intermediate / Advanced material. Sorry I should have specified.

 

[jcgriff2]

cluberti @ MSFN - http://www.msfn.org/board/user/311-cluberti/

Vir Gnarus here at Sysnative - https://www.sysnative.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/27-BSOD-Kernel-Dump-Analysis-Debugging-Information

Publications - sorry, don't know of any other than the ones you mentioned.

 

[Vir Gnarus]

Problem with all courses for this stuff is that you need to pay beaucoup money for it, usually because they are designed as seminars to train corporate IT groups and not meant for specific individuals. It's not completely out of reach price-wise, but it's something that'll need saving up for. Here's a couple seminars:

http://www.osr.com/debug.html
http://www.codemachine.com/int.html

Remember that interpreting BSODS means interpreting Windows internals, which means understanding OS design, basic programming language like with ASM and C, driver development and reverse engineering. Courses/material that covers any of those will be very useful. You're studying on a composite of skills, not just specifically BSODs - interpreting BSODs is not a skill in itself, it is a reflection of already existing skills.