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0xC01B00EA: STATUS_VIDEO_HUNG_DISPLAY_DRIVER_THREAD

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

0xC01B00EA = 3,222,995,178 = -1071972118

NTSTATUS 0xC01B00EA

STATUS_VIDEO_HUNG_DISPLAY_DRIVER_THREAD

{Display Driver Stopped Responding} The %hs display driver has stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display functionality. The next time you reboot the machine a dialog will be displayed giving you a chance to upload data about this failure to Microsoft.

%1, %2… are where Windows fills in details such as a file or program name.

Becomes the Win32 error: 2149974017

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility27 (0x01B) VIDEO
Code234 (0x00EA)