Need to instigate a windows blue screen of death

Thank you,

Though she wants us to instigate the BSOD by causing a memory management issue?

I don't know if you have any restrictions. If you replace one of the RAM modules with one with a different size and characteristics and then begin running lots of programs, it might do it. Also, if you disable the cache, then loading many programs will max out RAM usage and probably fail.

Your spec was in your first post. And in later versions of Windows, memory management is much better and I can't cause a core dump or BSOD any longer.

As you have a working one line of code to meet your spec, I feel I did enough research for your homework but want to show you an example of how 7 64 bit is doing much better.

See this -> http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w146/rproffitt2000/bigapp.jpg
This is one big app that is handily using a lot of RAM and will use more if I told it to.

You may have to use an older Windows to get something to answer your additional "specification" but at least I can BSOD in one line of code.
Bob

my classmates and i figured that the newer versions of windows would not allow a
bsod from memeory management...

we do not have a device that we can reconfigure hardware ram to cause a crash either.

do you know a few lines of code that would have instigated a memory management crash
in windows 98 for example?

Thankfully I no longer have access to such. It was a common problem back then but I think you could research this as your question has been answered.
Bob

Not that I would 'ever' advise you or anyone to cheat in a test or a homework question asked by a teacher, but...

Find a BSOD image in Google or elsewhere that fits your computer screen. Download it and set it as your wallpaper, (hide all desktop shortcuts, and hide the taskbar), or screensaver image that you can invoke with a single click shortcut, and voila! BSOD.

You'll probably fail the test, but the teacher might be impressed with your lateral thinking!

Mark

This lady is not that easy.... she wants to see us instigate the bsod while she watches... yes, she likes to watch, us suffer.

seeing that much ram being consumed with no issue.

It was more a demo to show that you could handle fairly large data sets in a C# (C Sharp) .NET based application. A colleague had stated you could not exceed 2.0GB for data. This little app was the result.
Bob