what does bsod code 0x1000007e mean

[pwl2706]

Hi,

Over the weekend on a Windows XP machine we had a system scrash with the below bugcheck message:

The bugcheck was: 0x1000007e (0xc0000005, 0xb954203c, 0xb8522bb0, 0xb85228ac)

Has anyone any ideas what could definitively cause this?

thanks

 

[rockie_]

SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557196(v=vs.85).aspx

Potential cause :Some drivers are old or not installed
Try WhoCrashed

 

[pwl2706]

SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557196(v=vs.85).aspx

Potential cause :Some drivers are old or not installed
Try WhoCrashed

Hi rockie_

Thanks for your help on this - excuse my ignorance, but what is whoscrashed?

 

[rockie_]

Its a program

 

[johnbl]

bugcheck 0x1000007e = SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
but the actual error returned was 0xc0000005
Error code: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 (3221225477) - The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s.

Basically a bad address was passed to a driver.

normally, you would update the drivers, scan for malware, do a sfc.exe /scannow to look for corrupted OS files,
do a chkdsk to look for file system corruptions. Update the BIOS or reset it to defaults and run memtest86 to check for hardware problems with your memory or BIOS memory timings.