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System Error Codes: Code 500 to Code 599
A complete list of system error codes from Error Code 500 to Error Code 599

By Tim Fisher, About.com

System error codes will appear in software programs and in various areas within the Windows operating system after certain errors occur.

Important: A system error code is not the same as a Device Manager error code or a browser error code, even though the error numbers may sometimes be the same.

Below is a list of system error codes from Code 500 to Code 599, along with a description of what the error code means.

Looking for system error codes outside of this range? See my Complete List of System Error Codes for error code details from Code 1 to Code 15299.

Error Code 553

System error code 553 means "The number of active profiling objects is at the maximum and no more may be started." This error code may also display as "ERROR_PROFILING_AT_LIMIT" or as the value 0x229.

Error Code 554

System error code 554 means "Used to indicate that an operation cannot continue without blocking for I/O." This error code may also display as "ERROR_CANT_WAIT" or as the value 0x22A.

Error Code 555

System error code 555 means "Indicates that a thread attempted to terminate itself by default (called NtTerminateThread with NULL) and it was the last thread in the current process." This error code may also display as "ERROR_CANT_TERMINATE_SELF" or as the value 0x22B.

Error Code 556

System error code 556 means "If an MM error is returned which is not defined in the standard FsRtl filter" This error code may also display as "ERROR_UNEXPECTED_MM_CREATE_ERR" or as the value 0x22C.

Error Code 557

System error code 557 means "If an MM error is returned which is not defined in the standard FsRtl filter" This error code may also display as "ERROR_UNEXPECTED_MM_MAP_ERROR" or as the value 0x22D.

Error Code 558

System error code 558 means "If an MM error is returned which is not defined in the standard FsRtl filter" This error code may also display as "ERROR_UNEXPECTED_MM_EXTEND_ERR" or as the value 0x22E.

Error Code 559

System error code 559 means "A malformed function table was encountered during an unwind operation." This error code may also display as "ERROR_BAD_FUNCTION_TABLE" or as the value 0x22F.

Error Code 560

System error code 560 means "Indicates that an attempt was made to assign protection to a file system file or directory and one of the SIDs in the security descriptor could not be translated into a GUID that could be stored by the file system. This causes the protection attempt to fail" This error code may also display as "ERROR_NO_GUID_TRANSLATION" or as the value 0x230.

Error Code 561

System error code 561 means "Indicates that an attempt was made to grow an LDT by setting its size" This error code may also display as "ERROR_INVALID_LDT_SIZE" or as the value 0x231.

Error Code 563

System error code 563 means "Indicates that the starting value for the LDT information was not an integral multiple of the selector size." This error code may also display as "ERROR_INVALID_LDT_OFFSET" or as the value 0x233.
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