How Computer Support Tips Help to Troubleshoot 0x00000050 Windows Error

With the rapid evolution of Internet technology and development of highly portable laptops, our reliability of computer has increased manifold. Today computers play a highly important role in every sphere of our life. Be it school, college, offices or hospitals, everywhere we require computers to keep our work smooth. The majority of these computers use Windows operating system to run various applications and programs. Any issue with the OS makes the system malfunction and the PC stops running properly.

Your Windows computer may stop working properly, or its performance may dip if it confronts the 

0x00000050 error. In this blog post, you will get detailed information regarding three cases when users face the error. If you are a novice and don’t know how to fix the error yourself, then you require expert computer support for quick computer repair. You should refrain from using inappropriate steps to fix the issue as it can further increase your problems. The ideal way is to call a technical support service and get the issue fixed.

But if you are an advanced PC user and want to fix the error yourself then go through the entire blog. In this blog, you will find detailed information regarding symptoms, causes and troubleshooting steps to fix the error. Find below three different cases when you face the error. 

Cases One: Error Faced While Shutting Down Computer

Symptoms

If you shut down a PC running Windows NT Server or Workstation, then you may receive a STOP: 

You come across a STOP 0x50 error when the Srv.sys file gets unloaded. You probably know that a shutdown handler get registered by Srv.sys that runs only after it gets unloaded from the system. You may find this scenario on multiprocessor computers having more than two network adapters. 

Resolution

According to Microsoft, this problem often takes place in Windows NT 4.0 version computers. However, it got rectified with the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 US. Service Pack. So by using the advanced and updated version of Windows NT 4.0 you can get rid of the issue. 

 

Case Two: Error Faced When Pathname was too Long in SMB

 

Symptoms 

 

You face the error when you are using a long path to access a file with a long filename. You use such long path while using Windows NT to access a file with a very long filename. In such cases, you may come across following error message on your PC screen:

STOP 0x00000050 (0xff737000 0x00000001 0x00000001 0x00000000)

Cause of the Error 

The major cause of the error is the Redirector (Rdr.sys) that fails to check the path name while sending a query to the server. The query is referred as server message block (SMB) in the common technical parlance. 

How to Resolve the Error?

You should use the following method to fix the issue:

The first method is to reduce the length of the path and the filename that a user tries to access on the server.

The second method is to apply the Windows NT service pack to fix the issue. It often fixes the issues that you may face because of a long path or filename. So like the case one, the users need to go for Windows NT Version 4.0 to fix such frustrating issues. 

Case Three: Error Faced While Accessing Windows NT from Windows 95

Symptoms 

You may come across this error while you are trying to access certain files on a Windows NT 4.0 computer using a Windows 95 client PC. Once the error takes place, your Windows NT computer may stop responding, or you can say start hanging frequently. The system will then display the following error message on a blue screen.

STOP 0x00000050

Cause of the Error 

You come across the error when you run Dr. Solomon's WinGuard security program for Windows NT version 7.65. The error takes place when the program runs as a service on the Windows NT-based computer. 

 

How to Resolve?

According to the OEM, use of version 7.66 of Dr. Solomon's WinGuard for Windows NT resolves the issue. In case it doesn’t then you may also contact the manufacturer through emails.

To work around the issue you should disable the program by following the below-mentioned steps:

•    Go to Control Panel, through Start menu and then double-click ‘Services.’

•    Now click Guard and then click Stop.

•    Finally, click ‘Startup,’ and then click ‘Disabled’ for the Startup setting.

 

Conclusion

After going through the three cases of the referred error, you might have understood the ways to fix the error. Here you must note that you need to apply the steps or tricks very carefully as any untoward action towards fixing the error may ruin the operating system and other important files and folders stored on the PC. If the above mentioned tips don’t work then, you need to contact a computer repair expert. A technical support engineer can scan your PC and diagnose the error and then employ the right set of troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue.