Blue Screen with STOP 0x0000007F: What does it mean?
I recently got a blue screen on a Windows XP machine with the following error code:
STOP 0x0000007F (0x0000000D 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000)
I wanted to find out what went wrong. This is what Microsoft has to say on the issue:
This error message can occur if either of the following conditions exists:
- Your computer has hardware or software problems (hardware failure is the most common cause).
- You try to over clock the speed of your computer’s processor (for example, you set a 150 MhZ processor to run at 187 MhZ).
[…]
The most important parameter is the first one (0x0000000X) which may have several different values. The cause of this trap can vary, depending on the value of this parameter. All traps that cause a STOP 0x7F can be found in any Intel x86 microprocessor reference manual as they are specific to the x86 platform.
Then follows a short list of common error codes, but 0x0000000D (decimal 13) is not on the list. As mentioned by the document, the full list can be found in the document called Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, more specifically in the first volume of this 3000+ page behemoth. In Section 6.4.1 on Page 140, you can find the table “Exceptions and Interrupts” with the full list.
So, what is 0xD?
Description: General Protection
Source: Any memory reference and other protection checks.
Ah, it’s the classic General Protection Fault.