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Stop code 0x000000BE: ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x000000BE = 190

Stop code 0x000000BE (blue screen)

ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY

Open the dump in C:\Windows\Minidump with WinDbg and run !analyze -v to see which driver was involved. Microsoft's bug check reference explains the four parameters for each code.

Win32 error 190 (0xBE)

ERROR_INVALID_MODULETYPE

The operating system cannot run %1.

%1, %2… are where Windows fills in details such as a file or program name.

As an HRESULT (HRESULT_FROM_WIN32): 0x800700BE