BSOD Driver Power State Failure

fetster · 29 Nov 2010 at 21:12

My Windows 7 system is freezing probably after an hr or so of being on with the following BSOD error:
Driver_Power_State_Failure
Stop 0x0000009F

Machine is:
- ASUS P5W DH Deluxe MB
- Intel Quad Core 2.4Ghz cpu
- 4 GB PC2 6400 DDR2 Memory
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
- 2TB Western Digital HDD

I have installed Driver Reviver and updated all of the drivers for the system.

I tried to google it but only answer I got was to check for latest drivers, which I have done.

Any ideas what the problem could be?

SiriusB · 29 Nov 2010 at 22:32

Does it not point to any kind of file with .sys or even .dll extensions? [Check the Event Viewer]

Is there any pattern to the BSoDs, i.e. you run a certain program/command/game?

Have you added any hardware or installed any new software prior to the issues starting?

SPARC · 29 Nov 2010 at 22:44

Had one of these bad boys back in the xp days. went through device manager and disabled one minor device at a time ... turns out a was a dodgy scanner driver.

I hope you don't have to go through that OP, was a bit of a pain

boot computer
disable device
use computer until it BSoD
rinse
repeat

Vimes · 30 Nov 2010 at 06:33

You should be able to find a ******.dmp file which is generated by Windows. It will look something like...

112810-21216-01.dmp

To read the contents of that file you could have a read here...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

(I understand it refers to XP)

The debugging tools are here...

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx

A third party tool here...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Appcrashview

I have seen it posted in other forums, but not having done it myself, where people have read information from that dmp file which can pinpoint exactly which driver has caused the BSOD.
I do not know if that applies every time or how easy it is to do the above but it might give you a start, if it does let us know

FYI - I was getting such an error on my Win 7 x64 build and I found through trial and error how it could be replicated. When I used a registry cleaner (Windows 7 manager) I found that even though it claimed 231mb of "garbage" from my registry it also created three problems. The first was the machine on occasion not entering sleep mode. Second was the MMC in Windows to not close properly. The third being a random BSOD with a Power State Drive failure.
Since my new build of x64 no longer uses ANY registry cleaners I have not had any of the above problems.