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ERROR_GRAPHICS_ADAPTER_WAS_RESET
ERROR_GRAPHICS_ADAPTER_WAS_RESET (0xC0262003) means Windows reset the graphics adapter and invalidated state associated with it. A reset can follow timeout detection and recovery (TDR), a driver failure, or another display-stack transition.
What to check
- Treat resources, handles, and cached display state from before the reset as invalid and recreate them through the normal device-recovery path.
- Inspect System events near the failure for display-driver resets, TDR, or hardware errors.
- If resets recur, capture the GPU model, driver version, workload, temperature/power context, and reproducible steps before changing components.
Useful command
Get-WinEvent -LogName System -MaxEvents 300 | Where-Object { $_.ProviderName -match 'Display|dxgkrnl|nvlddmkm|amdkmdag|igfx' }Microsoft: WDDM timeout detection and recovery
Microsoft: Display/Graphics overview
Microsoft: Graphics error codes
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