Driver_Power_State_Failure

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I just bought a new HP m8125x PC with Windows Vista pre-installed yesterday.
Since then, I have gotten the BSOD at least four times (I left in on
overnight so it might well have happened a few more times).

The message I get is "Driver_Power_State_Failure" - for which there seem to
be ample solutions offered on here, just not for my problem, as they all
relate to hibernate mode. I have had this happen while I've been typing (in
fact, I just lost ten minutes of homework because of this damn thing), never
when putting it to sleep or waking it up. So far there seems to be no pattern
as to which programs or hardware are running when it happens. I do have two
external hard drives connected by firewire, but when I tried to install a
patch apparently designed to fix that, the system told me that I didn't need
it (with no means of override).

Anyone have any idea what is wrong with my Vista-forsaken computer? If only
Greyhound Express had not turned my last computer into a very expensive
paperweight, I'd still be blissfully wandering the world of XP...
 
I have been having the same problem for the last two months with my brand new
HP d4890y computer with Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I have 4 GB of RAM and a
Core2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz.

It doesn't matter what I am doing, it just suddenly stops and gives me the
"Driver_Power_State_Failure" blue screen message. After it reboots it give
me a little windows that says "We will let you know when we find a
solultion." Not very helpful.
 
Same issue here, somewhat random BSOD with Stop 0x9F errors.

Homebuilt, Asus board, nvidia 8800gts 2gb ram and Vista Ultimate 64.

I can reproduce the problem on demand by trying to perform a complete
windows backup. Hibernates and resumes successfully.

Paul
 
Which Asus board? if it has NVidia chipset you may find newer drivers on
the NVidia site, but make sure you have a copy of the old drivers that
came with the MB before trying. You might want to say no to their
internet control thing but the drivers seem better in XP so worth
checking for Vista. Sounds like it might be a drive conflict.

You might also check any drives you have for jumpers that could be set
wrong.
 
The asus board is a P5k (intel P35 chipset), so the Nvidia chipset issues
don't apply.

However, i'd be interesting in hearing why you'd ask about hdd jumper
positions?

I had an issue installing vista on this machine initially. It had two IDE
hard drives, and part way through copying files it would bluescreen. This was
only after changing motherboards, as the origional quit. The drives were
working fine up until that point.

I assumed a drive was at fault and purchased a new SATA drive. Vista
installed correclty and once running, never had an issue reading or using
either IDE drive (that I knew of) so I've ignored it. I've checked and
they're jumpered and wired correctly, but i'd never have figured a jumper or
drive that otherwise works could cause a bluescreen.

On my next reboot i'll pull the data cable from the spare IDE drives and
continue to run the machine. As the bluescreens (apart from backing up, which
i'll be unable to do without a spare drive) are random, it could take a while
to confirm or deny they're at issue.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Paul
 
Okay, I will try and get back later when not at work :)

Briefly I bought slide mounts because I intended to install and test
multiple OS and some machine don't have SATA so was forced to get the
rather cumbersome IDE mounts for those. Mostly these have worked fine (2
per machine) and with the SATA capable machines I used 1 IDE slide and 2
SATA slides,

One of the IDE slide X 2 machines however kept throwing up blue screens
at random and the drive in use made no difference. What did make a
difference was replacing the actual IDE slide mount (Unlike the SATA
ones they have a short IDE cable inside and the drive and inner case
engage something like a Centronics plug when inserted). I replaced the
"Fixed" outer case, so there is something wrong between the IDE socket
on the back of the fixed part and the "Centronics" style connector
inside of it.

So I don't know exactly what the problem is, darned near impossible to
check the wiring visually of course, but it seems like conflicts on the
IDE bus can cause random BSOD issues.

There's more but like I said I have limited time right now...
 
For what it's worth you were absolutely on to something in regards to this,
and anyone else suffering from random BSOD's with a
Driver_power_state_failure message, might consider looking to the IDE bus.

After removing, and re-organizing the drives in different master/slave
configuration, including moving to a single drive set as single and still
receiving this BSOD message, I removed them both, and installed one into an
external usb clamshell.

It successfully completes backups and I've received no more BSOD's to date,
and will update the thread if one pop's up.

FWIW, it would BSOD at random intervals on it's own, but something to do
with how vista's complete backup accessed the IDE drives would trigger it
every time. If I was careful and kept an eye on the drive information within
"my computer", moments prior to BSOD'ing the drive information would no
longer populate, and any program currently accessing the spare IDE drives
would freeze.

Thanks Charlie, I suppose I'll have to pick up a spare SATA drive for backup
purposes.

Cheers
Paul
 
Unless Dell has completely changed its policy, the Dell Power Box is tied to
the Dell Motherboard.
You can not go into your local computer shop and buy either, and expect them
to work for very long at all!!!!!
 
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