Search common Windows Blue Screen stop codes with likely causes and fixes
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A kernel-mode process tried to access pageable memory at a too-high IRQL.
A serious memory management error occurred.
A kernel-mode program generated an exception that the error handler did not catch.
A pool header is corrupted — a driver corrupted memory allocated from the kernel pool.
A problem occurred inside ntfs.sys, the driver that allows Windows to read and write NTFS volumes.
An exception occurred while executing a routine that transitions from non-privileged to privileged code.
The Page Frame Number list is corrupted.
Invalid system memory was referenced.
A severe registry error has occurred — registry could not read in, write out, or flush one of the files.
The Hardware Abstraction Layer failed to initialise.
A registry hive used to boot Windows is corrupt or has invalid data.
Requested page of kernel data could not be read from the page file.
Requested page of kernel data could not be read.
Windows lost access to the system partition during startup.
A system thread generated an exception that the error handler did not catch.
The kernel generated a trap that the kernel was not allowed to catch — typically a double fault.
A fatal Machine Check Exception was reported by the CPU.
A driver is in an inconsistent or invalid power state — usually during sleep, hibernate, or shutdown.
A driver attempted to write to a read-only memory segment.
A thread in the pool is making a bad pool request — wrong IRQL or freeing a bad pointer.
Driver Verifier detected a violation while testing a driver.
A kernel-mode driver attempted to access pageable memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
A driver tried to access a pageable (or invalid) address at a too-high IRQL.
The kernel could not mount the boot volume.
A critical system process (e.g. csrss.exe, wininit.exe, services.exe) terminated unexpectedly.
A hardware device failed to release an interrupt request line.
A critical process or thread has unexpectedly exited or been terminated.
A driver overran a stack-based buffer.
An error has occurred in a USB driver.
An attempt to reset the graphics driver and recover from a timeout failed.
The display driver failed to respond in a timely fashion.
A fatal hardware error reported by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture.
A DPC (Deferred Procedure Call) ran too long, or the system spent too long at IRQL DISPATCH_LEVEL.
The kernel detected the corruption of a critical data structure.