power state

Evening, My grandfather has a Dell inspirion 530 that is hanging and then BSOD'ing when shutting down with windows 7. Here is the memory.dmp: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f) A driver is causing an inconsistent power state. Arguments: Arg1: 00000003, A device object has been blocking an Irp...

Hi, I recently clean installed Windows 7 on my PC and i am starting to get these blue screen error at random instance. The same PC with windows Vista has not produced these blue screen errors :confused: The dump file suggest that these are "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE" mostly in...

Hey there guys, I just did a FRESH install of vista ultimate 32-bit and everytime I try to put it to sleep, hibernate, shutdown, or restart, it simply doesn't. If I leave it for a while, with a blank screen, it blue screens and gives me the error of "Driver Power State Failure". If someone...

Hey, Hope someone is able to help with this... its getting very annoying! We have been having several BSOD problems installing 7100 on one of our computers. This computer has had 7000 installed on it several times with no trouble. The computer in question has a 'Asus M3N78-VM AM2/Plus VGA hSLI...

Hello guys, I've been running Windows 7 for the past few weeks now, and i have one issue with one of my drivers which i can't seem to solve. Periodically (intervals ranging from 1 hour - 3 days) my machine gives a BSOD with 'Driver power state failure' Also, if i shutdown the machine (reboot...

For the rest of the story (and the intro), see: Link Removed and its linked topic... I thought the title wasn't appropriate to the content so I'm starting yet another topic on the matter. So, today my laptop has entered a new realm of instability. The "infection" (NOT literal... figurative) is...

I installed Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit on HP DV9827 laptop. First attempt at clean install, remove old partition, gave me Driver_Power_State_Failure message when trying to set functions. I started over and redid install and other than having to manually shut down couple times when system should...

Twice! Shutdown takes a very long time (5 minutes+), then crashes with above error. Also had a shutdown fail (or at least, terminated after 15 minutes plus). MAY have been during a scheduled anti-virus scan by VIPRE - at least there was activity on an external drive not initiated by me! Can't...

Vista HP not shutting down. Thuis phenonemon has only just started occurring. The system hangs at the 'Shutting down' screen, sometimes followed by a BSOD with the following error message - Driver Power State failure. Any ideas what is causing this?