STOP 0x000000EA
THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
A device driver got stuck in an endless loop — in practice this is a graphics-driver code: the display driver spun waiting for the GPU and never came back.
Likely causes, most common first
- A buggy GPU driver
- GPU overclock instability or overheating
- A failing graphics card
How to fix it
1. Clean-install the GPU driver moderate
- Download the newest driver from NVIDIA, AMD or Intel.
- Remove the old one with DDU in Safe Mode, install fresh, reboot.
- Remove any GPU overclock and check temperatures under load.
The four parameters on the blue screen
Windows shows four hex numbers with this stop code. Here's what each means — our analyzer decodes them automatically from your dump file.
| Parameter 1 | The stuck thread |
| Parameter 2 | The driver object |
| Parameter 3 | Reserved |
| Parameter 4 | Reserved |
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