This is often what a malfunctioning driver does, but could also be a rootkit under the form of a driver that bumps into some form of protection. This happens when some code on your system attempts to execute other code that is of a higher privelege, when this happens without elevation of privileges it means that the non-privileged code would breach security. This indicates that an exception happened while executing a routine that transitions from non-privileged code to privileged code. In order to look up what a certain BSOD code actually means you can look it up in Bug Check Code Reference.īug Check 0x3B: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and 0x5C: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED sound familiar to you, you can read them there but I will detail things that might seem unclear to someone who doesn't do debugging or low-level driver programming. Ignoring the typical BSOD name, these are more formally referred to a as Bug Checks.
