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Bug Check 0xCA: PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR

The PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR bug check has a value of 0x000000CA. This indicates that the Plug and Play Manager encountered a severe error, probably as a result of a flawed Plug and Play driver.

Parameters

The following parameters are displayed on the blue screen. Parameter 1 identifies the type of violation.

Parameter 1 Parameter 2 Parameter 3 Parameter 4 Cause of Error
0x01 Address of newly-reported PDO Address of older PDO which has been duplicated Reserved Duplicate PDO: A specific instance of a driver has enumerated multiple PDOs with identical device ID and unique IDs.
0x02 Address of purported PDO Address of driver object Reserved Invalid PDO: An API which requires a PDO has been called with random memory, or with an FDO, or with a PDO which hasn't been initialized.

(An uninitialized PDO is one that has not been returned to Plug and Play by QueryDeviceRelation or QueryBusRelations.)

0x03 Address of PDO whose IDs were queried Address of ID buffer 1: DeviceID

2: UniqueID

3: HardwareIDs

4: CompatibleIDs

Invalid ID: An enumerator has returned an ID which contains illegal characters or isn't properly terminated. (IDs must contain only characters in the ranges 0x20 - 0x2B and 0x2D - 0x7F.)
0x04 Address of PDO with DOE_DELETE_PENDING set Reserved Reserved Invalid enumeration of deleted PDO: An enumerator has returned a PDO which it had previously deleted using IoDeleteDevice.
0x05 Address of PDO Reserved Reserved PDO freed while linked in devnode tree: The object manager reference count on a PDO dropped to zero while the devnode was still linked in the tree. (This usually indicates that the driver is not adding a reference when returning the PDO in a query IRP.)