DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE, occurring during sleep/standby

flake

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Hello all,

I am having an extremely frustrating problem with this BSoD, that began occurring yesterday. After waking the computer from sleep, it would blue screen with the DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE string, error code 0x0000009f. It doesn't happen immediately after waking, it usually takes a few minutes.

I have now also noticed something which is surely related: 1) cold boot, 2) sleep, 3) wake, and before any blue screen gets the chance to occur, 4) sleep again. When I try (4), that is, putting the computer to sleep for the second time since boot, the screen will fade to blank as it's supposed to, but instead of going to sleep it will restart. Then after I log in again, I see via BlueScreenView that it had actually crashed/blue screened again while the monitor was blank, with the same error string and code. It points to the hal.dll driver.

Two days ago I removed an internal hard drive, one that I had been using purely for storage, and I don't have anything installed that depended on that drive. In my motherboard's BIOS I have the boot order set correctly.

Can anyone please help me out with this issue. I built this computer over a month ago and it has never had any problems until now.

Here is a link to the last minidump file, sorry I don't know how to view its contents: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zz7w7fbaxgadjoq/060314-7156-01.dmp
 
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System One

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My Computer

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    Windows 8.1 Industry Pro B-)
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    Laptop
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    Toshiba
    CPU
    Core I5 2430M @ 2.4GHz
    Memory
    8 GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz Dual Channel ^_^
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    Intel HD 3000 B-)
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    1366x768
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Similar Problems with my computer.

I believe I am experiencing a very similar issue with my laptop because whenever it goes into sleep mode, it seems to restart upon waking up. I've checked the bluescreen viewer as well, and the cause of the restart seems to come from a driver power state failure coming from ntoskrnl.exe+1fcc1e, hal.dll+6a37, and storport.sys+33f0.

I've already run sfc/scannow to check for damaged files and I was also able to replace them using a DISM command, so now scanning doesn't run into any errors, but this driver error still persists.

Sidenote: The driver errors mainly started after I reinstalled Kaspersky onto my computer to fix some issues that I had with it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    ACER Aspire M5-481PT
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    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-337U CPU @ 1.80GHz
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    6GB
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    Mozilla Firefox
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    Kaspersky Internet Security 2014
Hi M15,

Could you please open a new thread so that we could assist you better?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Industry Pro B-)
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba
    CPU
    Core I5 2430M @ 2.4GHz
    Memory
    8 GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz Dual Channel ^_^
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD 3000 B-)
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    Toshiba 500 GB
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender & Common Sense!
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