"Stop 0x000000E3 RESOURCE_NOT_OWNED" Error Message (281317)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1

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.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kberrmsg kbfile kbfix kbWin2000PreSP2Fix KB281317