What does BSOD 34918 (SAVER_SICKAPPLICATION) mean?

 
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BC_BTHMINI_VERIFIER_FAULT SAVER_UNSPECIFIED

SAVER_SICKAPPLICATION

SAVER_SICKAPPLICATION: recorded condition

SAVER_SICKAPPLICATION has value 0x00008866 and identifies application-health classification. The SAVER family is used as a diagnostic classification; public parameter semantics are not available for this value, so the producer, dump type, and accompanying event payload define how it must be read.

Evidence that matters

Preserve WER health record, process lifetime, crashes, hangs, activation failures, resource history, and app-model events. Correlate the unhealthy classification with the first concrete failure and determine whether it is persistent across clean launches.

  • record the exact Windows build, process or package identity, module versions, capture timestamp, and component that requested the report.
  • determine whether the artifact is a live kernel dump, application dump, WER report, test-harness result, or a true system bug check before choosing debugger commands.
  • follow the stack and provider-specific fields back to the operation that stopped progressing; the symbolic bucket is a routing clue rather than a root-cause verdict.

What distinguishes the result

The bucket describes application health; it does not by itself distinguish exception, hang, dependency failure, or policy rejection. Compare neighboring SAVER values only after the evidence above identifies the same producer and lifecycle stage; similar-looking names can describe different capture triggers.

Recovery after evidence collection

Preserve the original dump and logs before restarting the affected process or machine. A restart may restore service, but durable recovery requires correcting the component, dependency, resource limit, firmware, or application state demonstrated by the captured evidence.

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