Windows Driver Kit: Windows Hardware Error Architecture
Hardware Error Events
[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
The Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) raises an event tracing for Windows (ETW) event whenever a hardware error occurs.
The WHEA hardware error events that are defined and the data templates that are used to describe those hardware error events is different for Windows Vista and for Windows Server 2008. The following topics discuss the information that is specific to each version of Windows.
User-mode applications that processes WHEA hardware error events can use the following macro to obtain a pointer to the error record that is contained within each hardware error event that it processes.
User-mode applications that processes WHEA hardware error events can use the following function to obtain a pointer to the hardware error packet that is contained within an error record.
For more information about processing WHEA hardware error events, see WHEA Hardware Error Event Processing Applications.