What does NTSTATUS 0x40000026 (STATUS_ARBITRATION_UNHANDLED) mean?

 
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STATUS_TIMER_RESUME_IGNORED STATUS_CARDBUS_NOT_SUPPORTED

STATUS_ARBITRATION_UNHANDLED

Resource arbitration continues at the parent bus

PnP resource assignment can involve nested arbiters. A child-bus arbiter may understand only a translated subset of I/O ports, memory windows or interrupt routes. This warning indicates that it did not make the allocation locally and expects the parent hierarchy to arbitrate the request.

It is not by itself a final resource conflict. Diagnosis should follow the requirements list through parent translation and assignment. A driver that converts this intermediate result into a generic failure can prevent valid bridge-window or interrupt routing decisions from reaching the arbiter that has enough scope.

What to inspect

  • Inspect the devnode parent chain and which arbiter returned the status.
  • Compare raw child requirements with the translated parent resource space.
  • Look for an eventual conflict or assignment result rather than treating the defer status as final.

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