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

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