STOP 0x000000C5

DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL

A driver corrupted the kernel's shared memory pool at a high system level — a driver bug; the corrupting driver often isn't the one that finally trips the crash.

Likely causes, most common first

A buggy third-party driver
Faulty RAM

How to fix it

1. Hunt the corrupting driver moderate

Update recently installed or updated drivers first.
If crashes persist, enable Driver Verifier on third-party drivers to catch the offender: verifier /standard /all (turn off later with verifier /reset).
Run Windows Memory Diagnostic to rule out RAM.

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	Memory referenced
Parameter 2	IRQL
Parameter 3	0 = read, 1 = write
Parameter 4	Address of the instruction

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