STOP 0x000000B8
ATTEMPTED_SWITCH_FROM_DPC
A driver tried to pause or switch tasks at a moment where that's illegal — a driver programming bug.
Likely causes, most common first
- A buggy driver — often storage, network or security software
How to fix it
1. Update the identified driver easy
- Update the named driver from its vendor, or remove the software it belongs to.
The four parameters on the blue screen
Windows shows four hex numbers with this stop code. Here's what each means — our analyzer decodes them automatically from your dump file.
| Parameter 1 | The DPC routine's address |
| Parameter 2 | The stack |
| Parameter 3 | Reserved |
| Parameter 4 | Reserved |
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