Seems people are rushing to use Virtual Machine software to test drive. However most of them don't have the correct hal.dll support...

Are you supposed to write that down so you can search for it when the machine is done rebooting?

yes. or i assume that 8 will have the same feature 7 does, in that on next boot it will give you a "windows has recovered from a serious error, would you like to go online to search for a solution" dialog.

I've never actually received a response of any kind from that dialog. Weird.

When I get such an error I photograph it with my phone.