You'll see this from time to time and it means that your PC has crashed and it's time to restart your computer and hope that you remembered to save your work recently. There's no answer, no meaning, something to do with the computer trying to use the same bit of memory to do two things at once - duh! We love it really, makes life exciting.
The error code you get when a Windows program causes a failure or lock-up. It can be due to insufficient memory, a buggy program, incompatible drivers, or hardware problems.
Windows term - Each program running under windows is given its own exclusive area of memory which is protected from other applications & a general protection fault occurs if this exclusive memory is accessed by another program.
A Windows error that occurs when a program attempts to access a memory address that is not available or is no longer assigned to it.
A general protection fault is a programming error that causes a "crash", an abnormal ending, or "lock-up" of a software program.
Effectively, a crash of a Windows NT system.
An error that is caused in a Microsoft Windows operating system when a program tries to access a protected section of memory that it should not be accessing....
A warning that a program has tried to reach a portion of memory that is not supposed to be accessed or the program is trying to perform a function it canot perform. GPFs usuall require shutting down a program and losing unsaved data.
an error which occurs when an application tries to use memory generally reserved for the operating system. The most common source of GPFs is a driver conflict.
n. The error condition that occurs in an 80386 or higher processor running in protected mode (such as Windows 3.1) when an application attempts to access memory outside of its authorized memory space or an invalid instruction is issued. See also protected mode. Acronym: GPF.
A general protection fault error message occurs when an application tries to write to memory that is not designated by the operating system.
General Protection Fault (or GPF) is a webcomic created by Jeffrey T. Darlington. It centers around the employees of a small software company called GPF Software and their misadventures.