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Asked: 2026-05-23T12:23:02+00:00

I am working on a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 project deploying on an Atom

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I am working on a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 project deploying on an Atom powered tablet. We have some known Windows bug check crashes (BSOD) that I am working through. We also have a bug where the tablet becomes unresponsive with the screen off; requireing a hard power cycle to recover. I am pursuing a theory that the unresponsive tablet is a BSOD crash that happened with the screen off. We have EWF turned on which prevents a memory dump from writing to know if a BSOD occurred. We turn the monitor off after user inactivity using user32.dll SendMessage(Handle, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, MONITOR_OFF).

Will a Windows bug check (BSOD) turn on the monitor if it was turned off previously programmatically?

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, bug checks do not turn on the monitor (doesn’t matter if it went to sleep due to inactivity or your message).

    Your best bet is to leave a kernel debugger attached.

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