NTSTATUS 0xC0000150 (STATUS_SERIAL_NO_DEVICE

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Description: No serial controller completed initialization for the driver instance.

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STATUS_SERIAL_NO_DEVICE_INITED

The serial driver found no controller it could initialize

This failure occurs during serial-driver startup when every enumerated or configured serial device fails initialization. Causes can include absent legacy UART hardware, unusable firmware resources, failed interrupt or I/O-port assignment, an incompatible controller driver, or a virtual COM provider that did not create its device correctly.

The message that the driver will unload refers to that driver instance, not necessarily every USB or framework-based serial device in the system. Identify which stack returned the code before changing BIOS settings. Modern SerCx and USB serial devices can use different drivers from the legacy Serial.sys path.

What to inspect

Inspect Device Manager resources and the setup or kernel PnP logs for the failing device.
Confirm the expected controller, ACPI description, interrupt, and I/O range are present.
Distinguish legacy UART initialization from USB, Bluetooth, and virtual COM-port providers.

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