Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) design guide
This section describes the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA), which provides support for hardware error reporting and recovery. In this section, the following information is provided:
An overview of WHEA and its components. For more information, see Windows Hardware Error Architecture Overview.
How to develop and distribute platform-specific hardware error driver (PSHED) plug-ins. For more information, see Platform-Specific Hardware Error Driver Plug-Ins.
How user-mode applications can communicate with the WHEA platform. For more information, see Windows Hardware Error Architecture-Aware User-Mode Applications.
In this section
Introduction to the Windows Hardware Error Architecture
New Information for Windows Hardware Error Architecture
Windows Hardware Error Architecture Definitions
Windows Hardware Error Architecture Overview
Platform-Specific Hardware Error Driver Plug-Ins
Windows Hardware Error Architecture-Aware User-Mode Applications
Windows Hardware Error Architecture Debugger Extensions
Related topics
Windows Hardware Error Architecture ACPI Table Specification
Hardware Management and Security
Bug Check 0x124: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (Windows Debuggers)
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