Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies: The Ultimate Administrator’s Repair Manual

Appendix B. Common Error Codes and Messages

This appendix acts as a quick index to common error messages that you may encounter on your systems. In this appendix, you will find two sections: Device Errors and Stop Errors. The first section addresses Device Manager error codes and provides guidance for how to resolve the problems that generate each error code type. The second part of this appendix indexes each of the most common stop errors, which are the generators of the notorious blue screen of death. When your system freezes and displays a blue screen with a small message and error code, you should write down the error and message, and then turn to the Stop Errors section for steps on how to identify and resolve the cause of the stop error. ...