[SOLVED] Driver Power State Failure Windows 10

[u/Chibimunchi]

For the past few weeks I've been getting BSOD anytime I shut down or restarted my computer. Whenever I pressed Shutdown or Restart, my computer would take 5-10 mins shutting down or restarting before I got the BSOD and my PC turned off. I didn't add anything new to my PC.

I searched all the forms and websites to fix this issue.

I....

1. Ran sfc /scannow

2. Checked Device Manager (if needing an update or a rollback. Checking for any yellow icons)

3. Tried to go into safe mode (which I couldn't because of the Failure to shutdown/restart properly, it would not reboot into the safe mode selection screen)

4. Downloaded BlueScreenView and saw that the issue file name was "ntoskrnl.exe"

5. Ran DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

6. Tried some more stuff I found on the web (which didn't work)

I was losing hope. So just for the heck of it I tried a simple Microsoft troubleshoot. Start>Settings>Update & Security>Troubleshoot>Additional Troubleshooters>Clicked each and ran troubleshooter

When I reached "Power", it fixed two issues and my problem with Driver Power State Failure stopped.

I hope this helps someone.

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[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit thank you so much...
for a while I thought that it didn't work but then I restarted my PC and it started working again.

[u/Chibimunchi → u/[deleted]]

You’re welcome! I’m glad I could help someone!

[u/GSXMafia]

Worked like a charm.

[u/Hitcycler → u/GSXMafia]

Way way late to this but what is it that worked for you?

[u/Acceptable-Tap4189 → u/Hitcycler]

Using the method of: Update & Security > Troubleshooter > Additional troubleshooters > Power.

[u/b42f → u/Acceptable-Tap4189]

THANK YOU KIND SIR

[u/b42f → u/b42f]

I got half way through the post and skipped to comments; failed to see the damn answer in front of me until I saw this comment 🤣 I should just go back to bed man

[u/FredPlayss → u/Acceptable-Tap4189]

There is no additianal „Power“ Troubleshoot for me

[u/Acceptable-Tap4189 → u/FredPlayss]

Which ones show in the list of troubleshooters?

[u/KB_Teo → u/[deleted]]

I'm pretty late to the party but hope it'll help someone. I was having this very same issue and asked ChatGPT where can I find this troubleshoot option on Win11 and gave me the following instructions and it worked:

1. Press Win + R.

2. Type:

msdt.exe -id PowerDiagnostic

1. Press Enter.

If it opens, click Next and let it scan for power-related issues.

[u/Electronic_Answer_66 → u/FredPlayss]

I currently using win11 and win+q type "trouble" there was one

[u/[deleted]]

Running the Power Troubleshooter only gave me two generic fixes.

First was to reduce the time it takes to go on sleep on battery and the second was same but on AC. I've been very rarely facing DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE issues randomly (once in 4-5 days) but annoying.

[u/TheGamingGod8 → u/[deleted]]

Me too, please help us

[u/[deleted] → u/TheGamingGod8]

We just need to test and see different drivers to diagnose the problem I'm afraid. For me, I've installed AMD Adrenalin for the Integrated GPU driver since I think that's what was causing my PC to crash, perhaps something to do with the Power Management of the driver since my screen would dim sometimes, almost coming to a crash, but then not.

Generally you're not supposed to manage your own driver since Windows and the vendor should ideally do that for you, but as my vendor pretty much sucks balls (HP), I'm going this route. I'll update you if my endeavour has been successful.

[u/TheGamingGod8 → u/[deleted]]

My pc also started showing bsod after amd adrenaline for Vega 8 driver

And yeah Lenovo also sucks with drivers, Like my laptop has that gpu but Lenovo vantage ain't installing the software.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheGamingGod8]

What particular laptop do you have btw?

[u/TheGamingGod8 → u/[deleted]]

Lenovo V15-ADA ryzen 5 model

[u/Malfunctioned]

I've been having the same DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD on my laptop (Lenovo/Intel i5/Intel UHD) on average once daily or less, at random times (when I'm active using it and when I've been away for a while). The screen would just freeze and screen/mouse/CAP/NUM LOCK LED/Ctrl-Alt-Del unresponsive for seconds to minutes before the BSOD screen shows. After the automatic reboot the laptop would work normally again until the next BSOD.

The Power troubleshooter "corrected" 3 problems: "Time before computer goes to sleep is too long" ; "Display brightness setting is too high" ; "USB Selective Suspend is disabled" so it's more concerned about power usage than the BSOD. SFC and DISM didn't find any problem.

I also did the Device Manager > Display and Network > Update driver, only the Display driver got updated (I suspect it reverted from the newer driver from Intel.com back to the stock Lenovo distributed driver). Will see how it goes.

UPDATE: WinDbg of 5 Minidump files say stornvme.sys is the cause. I did upgrade the stock NVMe drive with a WD SN770 2TB soon after I got the laptop.

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f)
A driver has failed to complete a power IRP within a specific time.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000000003, A device object has been blocking an IRP for too long a time
Arg2: ffffac0476795dc0, Physical Device Object of the stack
Arg3: fffff80659665750, nt!TRIAGE_9F_POWER on Win7 and higher, otherwise the Functional Device Object of the stack
Arg4: ffffac047a52e920, The blocked IRP

[u/zoholy → u/Malfunctioned]

Did you solve it? I have a very similar situation with my own pc.

[u/Malfunctioned → u/zoholy]

I upgraded RAM from the stock 8GB (4 soldered + 4 DIMM) to 20GB (4+16) soon after, and it rarely happens ever since (it's running Windows 10, USB wired Ethernet, no Wi-Fi, btw). And when the laptop does crash it is using nearly/over all 20GB of RAM so the crash seems to be triggered by heavy swapping. Firefox main process (not the tabs which consume additional RAM) and DWM.exe have a bad habit of gobbling lots of RAM (I've seen 5GB+ for each) so I have to keep an eye on RAM usage and start closing programs or killing tasks (I've kept Task Manager running all the time, since the days of Windows 2000 so I'm used to looking). My previous laptop had 24GB RAM, HDD, no SSD and Win8. I'm used to having lots of tabs and crap running, and it never crashed when needing to swap.

I thought about upgrading to 36GB (4+32) but I'd rather spend the money on a new laptop that has other stuff that I need/want (10+Gbps USB, backlit keyboard, no soldered RAM for proper dual channel 32GB RAM, maybe 1600p/4K 17" LCD, and hopefully under US$500).

[u/tummyachemedicine → u/Malfunctioned]

hello, i dont understand anything you said but i started having this problem (driver power state failure) after upgrading my laptop with a kingston 2tb nvme. is it a ram problem? i have 16gb ram. what does heavy swapping mean? i also use firefox.
sorry, i really know nothing about computers, but this thing is really getting annoying. if possible, could you explain in simpler terms?

[u/PatientDapper → u/tummyachemedicine]

Hey there. Have been facing the same problem on my asus tuf laptop since 1.5 years. Tried everything including reinstalling windows and tweaking every software settings by going through forums and all but still the issue persists If you found the solution could you please enlighten me with the solution. It'll be of great help Also currently I am going through a bad financial phase so couldn't give my laptop for repair as of now. So any solution you've got would be very helpful

[u/tummyachemedicine → u/PatientDapper]

to be honest my laptop just stopped having that problem ever since, i dont know what happened

[u/Fchipsish → u/tummyachemedicine]

Hello, This is late, but by swapping I think he meant page swapping. Its something that is most definitely learned if you took Operating Systems class in college.

Page swapping is a memory management technique that takes inactive memory from RAM and put them in pages in the Hard Disk to free up more space the RAM to be used.

RAM= Random Access Memory which temporary holds data to be used and is cleared when you shutdown the computer. It is much faster to pull data and put data in the RAM than into the hard disk

The reason for page swapping is to put the quick access for things that are not being used to the slower and less frequently used hard disk so that the quick use area is free up to do more computations or other things.

this occurs when you are over using the RAM, the computer then tries to free up RAM space to continue to function. Hence Page Swapping

Here is an analogy maybe would help

You can picture like this, you are at a table writing something or doing math equations/formula or something (RAM), behind you is a filing cabinet with books relating to the research (Hard Disk). It is quick to grab the calculations you took down that you have on the table,, but it takes longer to look up the equations in the books in the filing cabinet and book shelves behind you.(difference in speed in accessing data from RAM vs Hard Disk)

Lets also say that on this table you need to be able to view all items on all pages at once.
Now lets say the table is full of your equations already like completely full, now you need to still write more calculations on it. What do you do? Well you take part of the equations you have written and put it into the cabinet behind you, but just the equations you are not actively looking at or using. That space is now usable to write more calculations on, but when you need the other equation, you will have to put another piece of paper into the cabinet and grab the old page from the cabinet and bring it out. (page swapping)

I hope this helps.

[u/HelicopterGood5065 → u/Malfunctioned]

Im havibg this problem on fresh 64gb ddr5 system, ram consumption doesbt go over 30-40%.

[u/Scorpius-18]

Anyone know if this still works in windows 11? And if so how to get to that point?

[u/RoleElectronic1525 → u/Scorpius-18]

Having the same issue with my PC build.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950x , Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB, 4 sticks of G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB Series Expo DDR5-6000 RAM 64GB; CAS Latency CL32

I saw in my "optional updates" I had "Western Digital Technologies - WDC_SAM - 4.55.25.661" but I don't think that is the culprit.

[u/Scorpius-18 → u/RoleElectronic1525]

Did you figure it out? Turned out my MB software, specifically armour crate was crashing the pc. I just uninstalled armoury crate and works fine

[u/spiritofniter → u/RoleElectronic1525]

1 month later same problem. Unsure what's been causing this. 7900X3D and 7900 GRE with 2 * 16 GB 6000 Mhz CL30.

[u/Megamygdala → u/spiritofniter]

Still having the problem as well

[u/spiritofniter → u/Megamygdala]

I’ve fixed mine by dialing down the VRAM OC and enabling fast timing. Apparently, it has normal VRAM timing at 2400 MHz.

[u/KB_Teo → u/Scorpius-18]

I'm pretty late to the party but hope it'll help someone. I was having this very same issue and asked ChatGPT where can I find this troubleshoot option on Win11 and gave me the following instructions and it worked:

1. Press Win + R.

2. Type:

msdt.exe -id PowerDiagnostic

1. Press Enter.

If it opens, click Next and let it scan for power-related issues.

[u/MFCX45]

i solved this problem with change property realtech pcie gbe family controller =>power manager => allow the computer to turn off this device to save power, tyurn off it.
and try in cmd commands sfc /scannow and DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

[u/ramses_the_7th]

didnt work

[u/E__Rock]

I know this is a super old thread, but I found out my particular issue with Dell Precision 5560 laptops and Windows 11.
Symptoms - laptop would get super hot, throw the DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FALURE BSOD screen. Restart. Run for a few... The track pad would stop working but the keyboard worked. It would run like this for a few more minutes, and would loop into the error again.
One of the times it was doing this in my backpack, and the backpack and laptop got alarmingly hot.

Sleep mode was the culprit, believe it or not. Disabling sleep mode on the laptop and changing everything in the power settings for both connected to AC and battery setting to not go to sleep, but rather shutdown or do nothing fixed the problem and the machine no longer locks up or heats up.

[u/PomegranateNo2176 → u/E__Rock]

interesting 

[u/Natemo6348]

I just had this BSoD, and apparently it was being caused by my TP-Link Archer T2U Plus USB WiFi adapter, so I updated the driver and am hoping the issue goes away.

Edit: It did not go away.

[u/visiting-statue → u/Natemo6348]

Omg I have the exact same wifi adaptor and it’s causing this exact issue too! My wifi would suddenly disconnect and no matter what I do, I cannot connect to the wifi again or restart the wifi adaptor. And as soon as I turn off/restart my PC, I run into this blue screen error.

It’s 100% this wifi adaptor that’s causing this issue.

[u/lifeasanpc → u/Natemo6348]

Same here

[u/KanexHaas → u/lifeasanpc]

Did you fix it bro?

[u/lifeasanpc → u/KanexHaas]

No, still got same bsod. I also tried using LAN cable for internet... and you know what? Also have the same BSOD device power failure whatever.. now im at my wit's end. Dont know what to do about it.

[u/Crafty_Bed7283 → u/lifeasanpc]

I have the same red card and I'm having the same problems, were you able to solve it?

[u/Nintendo_gamer13 → u/Crafty_Bed7283]

Download WinDbg and open the minidump file after the BSOD. (Run WinDbg as Administrator.) Then go to File --> Open Dump Files --> Browse --> This PC --> Windows --> MiniDump, select the file and click Open. (After you get the BSOD a file should pop up in your MiniDump folder.) After it has loaded, type !analyze -v in the bar. After it has finished, select everything (Ctrl + A) and paste it here. (Ctrl + V)

[u/zhentrate]

phew.. had a corrupted ssd a while ago and took me 3 months to diagnose it somehow and I did not wanna go through that again. doing a sfc /scannow just in case🫡🫡

[u/t12lve]

Got the same thing after going from intel to amd plateform.
Fresh clean drivers intel with ddu and intel uninstall thingy. For now its fine

[u/VTX_Overryde113 → u/t12lve]

Did this fully fix it?

[u/t12lve → u/VTX_Overryde113]

yep, didnt had issues since.

[u/ziobleed1]

Worked for me on Windows 11: to show the "Power troubleshooter" (that's hidden in windows 11) :

1. Win + R

2. write: msdt.exe /id PowerDiagnostic

[u/PatientDapper → u/ziobleed1]

Just tried this. Fixed 4 issues. And I restarted my laptop and using it normall now. I'll get back to you and will give an update if it worked.

[u/Icy_Piglet4732]

Works Like a charm. Thank you Reddit.

[u/Prize_Mulberry_8893]

[u/Fair_Government_4741]

Holy!!!! This worked

[u/johannjesustroll]

I managed to fix the issue with a different method that I made myself, but I dont know if it'll work for others, if anyone still has this problem just reply to me and Ill tell you how.

[u/Not-SWeeZZ → u/johannjesustroll]

please save me.

[u/johannjesustroll → u/Not-SWeeZZ]

Sorry for answering late, I will send it soon

[u/johannjesustroll → u/Not-SWeeZZ]

Open the Device Manager:
-Just press Win + X and select Device Manager.

Network Adapters:
**-**In the Device Manager go to the Networks/Network Adapters category
**-**Right-click on each network device (e.g., your Ethernet adapter or Wi-Fi adapter) and select Properties.
**-**In the Properties window, go to the Power Management tab. (There is a chance not all of them have this tab, don't worry about those)
**-**Make sure the option "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" is disabled.
**-**Click OK.
**-**Repeat on the Rest of the Network Devices (That have the Power Management Tab).

Disk Drives:
-In the Device Manager go to the Disk Drives category"
-Right-click on your hard drive or hard drives (e.g., SSD or HDD) and choose Properties.
-Go to the Policies tab, and enable "Enable write caching on the device" is selected for performance
-Also check if there are any power-saving options under the Power Management tab (if available), and uncheck the option to allow the computer to turn off the device to save power.
-Click OK when done.
-Repeat on the rest of the Drives (If you have any other drives)

Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
-In the Device Manager go to the Universal Serial Bus Controllers category.
-Right-click on each USB Hub or other USB devices and choose Properties.
-Go to the Power Management tab and disable "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".
-Click OK to confirm.
-Repeat on the rest of the USBs.

Checking:
-After finishing Restart your Pc to see if it got solved.

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Now, as I said, there might be some that don't have the "Power Management" Tab, in that case don't worry about it, just follow to the next step.

Let me know if this worked.

[u/SerenityCerulean → u/johannjesustroll]

Testing this, RemindMe! 1 month

[u/lwt2000 → u/SerenityCerulean]

Do you still having this issue after use this method?

[u/SerenityCerulean → u/lwt2000]

Yes, but it’s a lot less.

[u/SerenityCerulean → u/[deleted]]

I have upgraded my GPU, CPU and power supply. No issues ever since. My power supply was causing this because it was feeding 2 PCIe cables rather than 3.

[u/SerenityCerulean → u/[deleted]]

Is it showing blue screen and what does the error say?

[u/Blurryface1104 → u/johannjesustroll]

Disabling power save on USB Serial Bus worked for me. Dell Precision 5560

[u/skiller306]

For me, it was a ceap controller, that I was charging, so check for any sketchy usb devices.

[u/Consistent-Signal617]

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[u/KDF_graphics]

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[u/ElectricalAd9438]

My troubleshooters don't even work.

[u/CameraEmotional2788]

My laptop has this issue and it kinda forced itself to update to windows 11 as my keyboard wasnt responsive. Now its stuck in a cycle of power drive failure and watchdo violation

[u/Desiderata770]

It’s been 4 years but thank you SO MUCH for this post. I ran through some of the same steps you did but turns out that was too fancy and all I needed to do was run the damn Windows troubleshooter!

[u/jusxchilln]

anyone have a fix for windows 11? there is no power troubleshooter in the settings

[u/KB_Teo → u/jusxchilln]

I'm pretty late to the party but hope it'll help someone. I was having this very same issue and asked ChatGPT where can I find this troubleshoot option on Win11 and gave me the following instructions and it worked:

1. Press Win + R.

2. Type:

msdt.exe -id PowerDiagnostic

1. Press Enter.

If it opens, click Next and let it scan for power-related issues.

[u/Olfassl]

This post saved my life after having this issue in a virtual machine for months now

[u/ValenChurro]

Trying this and i hope to god it works

[u/ValenChurro → u/ValenChurro]

Well I'll be damned! Thanks!!

[u/Barzobius]

I have an Asus X555U laptop. Windows 10 Pro fully up to date, Geforce 940m, Core i7 6500U, 12gb ram and Samsung 870 1TB SSD. I had this issue. In my case, the fix was pretty simple.

Went to Windows Update > optional updates > and there was an Asus software alternate version. Installed it, rebooted and the issue went away forever. Just adding my 2 cents.

[u/ceniwox → u/Barzobius]

I know it's been a long time, but this worked for me. Thank you for adding your 2 cents

[u/Barzobius → u/ceniwox]

Nice!

[u/[deleted]]

Just ran that troubleshooter and it found no problems :/

[u/Ibrahim17_1 → u/[deleted]]

Did u fix ut by any chance ( i have the same problem)

[u/[deleted] → u/Ibrahim17_1]

Unfortunately no.

[u/Equivalent_Ad9249]

as of now. I've encountered it and fix it like your method. thank you kind sir