STOP 0x000000BE
ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY
A driver tried to write to memory that is read-only — a driver bug, occasionally surfaced by bad RAM.
Likely causes, most common first
- A buggy driver
- Faulty RAM
- GPU or security drivers most commonly
How to fix it
1. Update the identified driver and test RAM easy
- Update the named driver from its vendor.
- Run Windows Memory Diagnostic.
- Clean-install the GPU driver if it's the one named.
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 | Virtual address of the attempted write |
| Parameter 2 | Page table entry contents |
| Parameter 3 | Reserved |
| Parameter 4 | Reserved |
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