STOP 0x000000F7
DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER
A driver wrote past the end of a stack buffer — a serious driver bug (the kernel version of a buffer overflow), stopped before it could do damage.
Likely causes, most common first
- A buggy driver
How to fix it
1. Update the identified driver easy
- Update the named driver from its vendor, or remove the software it belongs to.
- If none is named, remove/update recently installed drivers.
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 | Actual security cookie |
| Parameter 2 | Expected cookie |
| Parameter 3 | Complement of the expected cookie |
| Parameter 4 | Reserved |
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