HTH you are a wonderful person. Uninstalled PC Tools and the problem was instantly fixed. I can't believe it was that simple, I've been on this for two days now disconnecting, reconnecting and updating drivers on various bits of hardware and yet, it seems to have worked. Thanks for your help. -Z.
I recently purchased a new desktop and every time it attempts to shut down it hangs at the shuting down screen for about five minutes then goes to the BSOD. The message is a 0x0000009 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. This computer is less than a week old, nevertheless I went through and updated...