how to create a legitimate BSOD?

I bought a Sony x135 from local Sony Style store a week ago. It had 3 BSODs during the past few days, once under preinstalled Win7 and twice under fresh installed Win7. Both are IRQL not less or equal.

Since I am still under Sony Style's 14 days exchange period, I took it back for an exchange. At the store, Sony technician ask me to show him a proof of the BSOD, which I don't have..... so I had to take the laptop home and trying to reproduce the BSOD and take a picture.

Is the BSOD saved in event viewer? if so, under what tag? also, does anyone know what could cause the BSOD and how to reproduce it quickly?

 

proof of blue screen is saved in event viewer, in system. Be careful thought because the logs clean themselves.

If you get a 14 day exchange just demand one, you shouldn't have to provide any proof. Also, if you see a dumpfile in the root of the c drive (view hidden files) that's further proof.

 

You can also show how many blue screens in the system reliability viewer.

 

click start...then type reliability into the search box - click "view reliability history". your blue screens should show up in that report. The error may show as "windows stopped working".

 

And if nothing else works, get the BSOD screensaver from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558