STOP 0x000000BE ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY - 0xBE

A device driver attempted to write to read-only memory.


When you upgrade a computer that has a Xircom Rex 6000 installed that uses the universal serial bus (USB) cradle, you may receive the following error message when the computer starts in Windows XP for the first time:

A Fatal System Error has occurred:
0x000000be (0x80129768, 0x00129121, 0xF96A4754, 0x0000000B)


This error may also occur if you connect the USB cradle for the Xircom Rex 6000 to a computer that is running Windows XP, and then you begin the installation process during the hardware identification phase.


When you try to install the Qwestdex Dex toolbar to your Windows XP-based computer, you may receive the following error message:

0xBE (ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY) in xSides.sys.


When you use an IEEE 1394-based scanner and run a 32-bit scanning program on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, you receive an error message on a blue screen that resembles one of the following:

0x0000000A:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x000000BE: ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY


This problem occurs when the scanning program calls the DeviceIoControl function to send a IOCTL_SCSISCAN_CMD control code to the kernel mode driver. In Windows Vista, you may not experience the blue screen. When your scanning program calls the DeviceIoControl function to send an IOCTL_SCSISCAN_CMD control code to the kernel mode driver in Windows Vista, this call may not be completed successfully, and your scanning program does not work as expected. The exact symptom that is observed in the user interface depends on how your scanning software works when the DeviceIoControl function fails.