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Today my PC BSOD'd while I was in class, the message was a DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE. This first crash did not create a dump file, leaving me to believe it was very serious. After the crash, the computer behaves very differently. Many of my programs still work, but the internet connection does not work at all (pings timeout, can't load any websites). However, the network diagnostic tool reports a valid internet connection, and several of my applications seem to think they are connected to the internet. They have even occasionally loaded data through network communication. Other strangeness: Steam no longer appears in my taskbar, but process runs for it at startup regardless. Attempts to launch any games in Steam cause the process to freeze in such a way that the Task Manager cannot kill it.
Since the first BSOD with no dump file, two more BSODs occurred (attached). With information I found online I made sure to update all of my drivers - there was an intel chipset driver out of date at the time of all of these crashes. I have since fixed that problem, but my internet problems persist (more info: after a very long amount of time some parts of some pages load, but I have yet to successfully get a ping response) and several of my programs no longer work. Can someone help me identify what could have happened during that first crash that caused all of this?Link RemovedLink Removed
Since the first BSOD with no dump file, two more BSODs occurred (attached). With information I found online I made sure to update all of my drivers - there was an intel chipset driver out of date at the time of all of these crashes. I have since fixed that problem, but my internet problems persist (more info: after a very long amount of time some parts of some pages load, but I have yet to successfully get a ping response) and several of my programs no longer work. Can someone help me identify what could have happened during that first crash that caused all of this?Link RemovedLink Removed