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0xC000016C: STATUS_SHARED_IRQ_BUSY

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0xC000016C = 3,221,225,836 = -1073741460

NTSTATUS 0xC000016C

STATUS_SHARED_IRQ_BUSY

An attempt was made to open a device that was sharing an IRQ with other devices. At least one other device that uses that IRQ was already opened. Two concurrent opens of devices that share an IRQ and only work via interrupts is not supported for the particular bus type that the devices use.

Becomes the Win32 error: 1119ERROR_IRQ_BUSY: Unable to open a device that was sharing an interrupt request (IRQ) with other devices. At least one other device that uses that IRQ was already opened.

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility0 (0x000)
Code364 (0x016C)