Hi all, I have a friend who is experiencing the BSOD error 0xBE, which i know
is for the trying to write a read only file. It identifies the NDIS.sys as
where the fault is, but i have yet to find a way to fix this. Basically
anytime she turns on the computer withing a matter of minutes the BSOD
appears saying that windows has been shut down for her safety. It
recommended a system restore, but none of them are successfully completed. I
read on one info site about rolling back a faulty driver, but one is not
identified in the device manager, and she has called DELL and they didn't
know what to do and gave their famous response of reformatting. Does anyone
know what we can do to get things back on track?

"kimkat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> Hi all, I have a friend who is experiencing the BSOD error 0xBE, which i
> know
> is for the trying to write a read only file. It identifies the NDIS.sys
> as
> where the fault is, but i have yet to find a way to fix this. Basically
> anytime she turns on the computer withing a matter of minutes the BSOD
> appears saying that windows has been shut down for her safety. It
> recommended a system restore, but none of them are successfully completed.
> I
> read on one info site about rolling back a faulty driver, but one is not
> identified in the device manager, and she has called DELL and they didn't
> know what to do and gave their famous response of reformatting. Does
> anyone
> know what we can do to get things back on track?

This error occurs when a driver tries to write to a read only portion of
memory, not a read only file. See this link. On it look at the link to the
article about How to Use Driver Verifier to Troubleshoot Windows Drivers.

http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm
0x000000BE: ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY

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