Driver_Power_State_Failure after waking from sleep

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I don't know what this is but when I wake the PC from sleep it starts up, i.e. the fans start, the HDD chugs into life and the mouse & keyboard light up, but I get a "DVI No Signal" box on the monitor. If I switch the monitor off and then on again the light goes to blue (as it is when it's on) but then switches back to the yellow (as it is when it's powered down with the PC in sleep mode). Another funny thing is that if the PC is asleep for an hour so it doesn't happen. If it's for quite a few hours it does.

Normally it takes a hard reboot to sort it out, but today I got a Windows error screen saying "Driver_Power_State_Failure" and the PC will reboot.

It's weird because the rest of the time, everything works fine, it's just waking from sleep that is causing problems.

I'm running Windows 10 64-bit. Any ideas?
 
Everything is up to date and not overclocked.

That said, I've just done a third clean installation of the latest Nvidia drivers and it seems to have fixed it. *touch wood* At least I hope it's fixed it and it awakening without issue a couple of times is not just an errant occurrence.
 
Nope. I spoke too soon.

Just tried to wake it from sleep after six hours, the PC woke but the monitor stirred and then went back to sleep and I got thrown to the "Driver_Power_State_Failure. We are gathring information and your PC will restart in 10%....20%....30%.....40%...." screen.
 
Having been through the pain of diagnosing sleep issues earlier this year, and going through an exhaustive list of about 40 things to try I feel your pain. In my case it was the Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK motherboards I was using - replacing them with boards in my sig resolved the issue.

In your case I think this is more likely a driver or compatibility problem as you always receive the same BSOD error. It might be worth using Blue Screen Viewer or the Windows SDK to read the crash dump files which may point you to a certain driver.

Just in case it helps at all, here's a list of everything I tried:
1. 8 passes of memtest86+ (no errors)
2. Reinstalled Windows
3. Enabled/Disabled C states
4. Minimal drivers/peripherals
5. Updated drivers for GPU, chipset, audio, SATA and LAN
6. F6, F7 and \F7e BIOS for my motherboard
7. Increased IMC voltage (System agent, VRIN, digi I/O and analogue I/O)
8. Enabled enhanced memory stability in BIOS
9. Enabled/Disabled fast memory boot
10. Removed CPU overclock
11. Downclocked RAM to 1600MHz
12. 2T instead of 1T command rate
13. Driver verifier, sheds no light as each BSOD is different
14. Disabled/enabled Intel Dynamic Storage accelerator
15. RAM in different slots
16. Increased CPU vcore
17. DDR voltages up to 1.6v
18. Set LLC to Turbo
19. Enabed/Disabled all power saving options in BIOS
20. Disabled VT-d and virtualisation
21. Moved SSDs to different SATA ports
22. Disabled AHCI link Power Management
23. Manually set RAM timings
24. Borrowed a friend's Vengeance Pro 1866 C9 memory - same result in both boards.
25. Replaced O/S SSD with different model
26. Auto & Manual PCIe slot speed configs
27. CMOS reset and default BIOS settings
28. Removed Xonar sound card
29. Downgraded Intel management engine driver to one on GB site
30. Downgraded Intel Chipset, ME, AHCI, LAN to ones on GB site
31. Dummy PSU load enabled
32. Dummy PSU load enabled + 1.56v DDR voltage
34. Clean install windows with drivers from Gigabyte website
33. Clean Win 8.1 install with drivers from Gigabyte motherboard DVD, no apps, no GPU
34. Intel processor diagnostic test (No errors)
35. Legacy USB enabled/disabled
36. USB devices removed except keyboard and mouse
37. F7 BIOS
38. Link power management = HIPM+DIPM
39. Link power management = Active
40. Install windows with UEFI boot rather than legacy
41. New SATA cables all round
42. Windows 10, same error
43. Different PSU
 
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