Microsoft KB Archive/281317

= &quot;Stop 0x000000E3 RESOURCE_NOT_OWNED&quot; Error Message =

Article ID: 281317

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q281317



SYMPTOMS
You may receive the following error message on a blue screen when the NTFS file system is stressed:

Stop 0x000000e3 (0x81d534c8, 0x8210fc20, 0x00000000, 0x00000002)

RESOURCE_NOT_OWNED

NOTE: The four parameters may differ significantly from the parameters in this error message, but the stop code is 0xE3.



CAUSE
This problem can occur because there is a timing problem with the Ntfs.sys file, which may cause a resource to be released even though you did not acquire it.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date        Time    Version        Size     File name  Platform ---  12/14/2000  04:39p  5.0.2195.2800  512,240  Ntfs.sys   Intel



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

Additional query words: FRS NTFRS E3 resource not owned

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kberrmsg kbfile kbfix kbwin2000presp2fix KB281317

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