BSOD 0x141 (VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED): causes and diagnosis

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Description: Windows detected a timeout in a GPU video engine rather than a general 3D engine.

Could be also:
Constant	Type	OS
ERROR_DEVICE_UNREACHABLE	Win32 error	Windows

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STORAGE_DEVICE_ABNORMALITY_DETECTED	VIDEO_TDR_APPLICATION_BLOCKED

VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED

Video engine timeout for VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED

VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED is bug check code 0x00000141.

This bug check is related to GPU engine scheduling and timeout detection. It differs from generic video memory or scheduler corruption because the timed-out unit is the video engine path, such as decode, encode, or copy/video processing work.

How to read it in a dump

Correlate with media playback, video decode/encode, browser hardware acceleration, or GPU compute/video workloads.
The TDR context, GPU scheduler state, and display miniport driver are key evidence.
Driver version and firmware can matter more than the application that submitted work.

What to check

Update or roll back GPU/display drivers in a controlled test.
Check whether disabling hardware acceleration changes the failure pattern.
Collect TDR, DXGKRNL, and display miniport information from the dump and event logs.

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