Storage Device Abnormality Detected 0x00000140: How to Fix

A quick restart sometimes helps with this issue

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Published onOctober 23, 2024

published onOctober 23, 2024

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Storage_Device_Abnormality_Detected comes with a 0x00000140 code, and it is a vague BSOD error, it usually affects developers, but sometimes even regular users can experience it. If you encounter it, here’s what you should do.

How can I fix the Storage_Device_Abnormality_Detected error?

1. Restart your device

If you’re a Surface owner, do the following:

2. Check your storage device

As stated previously, Storage_Device_Abnormality_Detected BSOD usually affects developers, so it’s somewhat rare to experience it as an end user.

According to Microsoft’s documentation, this issue appears if the driver stack encounters a rate of responsiveness violations that exceed the threshold or if it fails to respond.

This isn’t the only error you can encounter and we previously coveredAttempted_Write_To_Cm_Protected_StorageandError_Same_Drive 143errors, so don’t miss them.

Storage Device Abnormality Detected 0x00000140: How to Fix#

How can I fix the Storage_Device_Abnormality_Detected error?#

1. Restart your device#

2. Check your storage device#

Storage Device Abnormality Detected 0x00000140: How to Fix

How can I fix the Storage_Device_Abnormality_Detected error?

1. Restart your device

2. Check your storage device