Another nasty little gremlin that causes a PC to crash with a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has found in windows 10, some folks have been blocked from upgrading to the May 2020 Update or October 2020 Update.
Microsoft released a support document, as described by the bug happens when the user plugs in an external NVMe SSD into a Thunderbolt port. So acoording to experts obviously, this only affects folks who have the latter connector on their machine, as well as Windows 10’s driver related to said NVMe SSDs.
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Microsoft explains: “An incompatibility issue has been found with Windows 10, version 2004 or Windows 10, version 20H2 when using an Thunderbolt NVMe Solid State Disk (SSD).
“On affected devices, when plugging in a Thunderbolt NVMe SSD you might receive a stop error with a blue screen and ‘DRIVER_VERIFIER_DMA_VIOLATION (e6) An illegal DMA operation was attempted by a driver being verified.’
“Affected Windows 10 devices will have at least one Thunderbolt port and any currently available version of the driver file stornvme.sys.â€
More widespread?
The error could possibly be a bit more widespread in terms of affected users, at least going by a post on Microsoft’s Answers.com help forum, according to a lenova laptop user description, the blue screen error as coming out of nowhere when simply typing in Notepad – although obviously we can’t put too much stock in a single report.