diff --git a/windows-driver-docs-pr/whea/whea-hardware-error-events.md b/windows-driver-docs-pr/whea/whea-hardware-error-events.md index 78f878c7b7..33b33b8d91 100644 --- a/windows-driver-docs-pr/whea/whea-hardware-error-events.md +++ b/windows-driver-docs-pr/whea/whea-hardware-error-events.md @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ ms.topic: error-reference The Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) raises an Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) event whenever a hardware error occurs. These hardware error events are recorded in the system event log. For descriptions of the various hardware error events that can be raised by WHEA, see [Hardware Error Events](/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/_whea/). +> [!NOTE] +> The Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger events recorded in the System event log provide a summarized view of the hardware error and may not include all diagnostic details. For complete error information, review the raw WHEA records available in the Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WHEA/Errors event log. These records contain the underlying hardware error data, which can be converted into a human-readable Common Platform Error Record (CPER) format as defined by the UEFI specification. Tools such as dumprec.exe and other publicly available CPER parsers can be used to decode and analyze this data. + An application can retrieve hardware error events from the system event log by querying for any events that were logged by WHEA. For examples of how to retrieve WHEA hardware error events from the system event log, see [Querying the System Event Log for Hardware Error Events](querying-the-system-event-log-for-hardware-error-events.md). An application can also register to be notified whenever new hardware error events are raised by WHEA. For examples of how to register for the notification of new hardware error events, see [Registering for Notification of Hardware Error Events](registering-for-notification-of-hardware-error-events.md).