WhyCrashed

STOP 0x000000C9

DRIVER_VERIFIER_IOMANAGER_VIOLATION

Driver Verifier caught a driver mishandling I/O requests. Like 0xC4: the tool did its job and the crash names the buggy driver.

Likely causes, most common first

How to fix it

1. Act on the verdict easy

  1. Update or remove the driver named in the report.
  2. Turn Verifier off afterwards: verifier /reset

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 1Subtype of the violation
Parameter 2Varies
Parameter 3Varies
Parameter 4Varies

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