Driver_power_state_failure

[Noor Motani]

Often my system crashes with the error message "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE.
Error number 0000009F.
This happens when the system is idle for a period of time. I have "never
sleep" set up as my power saver options. Usually, it kicks in the screen
saver but these days it often crashes before it goes to screen saver. I also
had a system freeze with error message "Login process has failed to create
the security option dialog. FAILURE - SECURITY OPTIONS". This afternoon,
another strange error which said something like this: "picture in the slide
show did not load in the memory" and the system froze.

Any help will be appreciated.

Noor Motani

 

[Guest]

In Control Panel choose Problem Reports and Solutions (type problem in
Start's searchbox), go to Problem History, right click your error and choose
Check For Solution. You can also examine the details.

In Administrative Tools choose Reliability and Performance Monitor and
choose MonitoringTools then Reliability Monitor (type Reliability in search
on Start) . This list is a chart of software installs, uninstalls, Windows
updates, and crashes by date. See if your crashes started happening after
you installed or uninstalled something.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Noor

See the following

http://aumha.org/a/stop.php#0x9f

 

[Guest]

Often my system crashes with the error message
"DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. Error number 0000009F.
This happens when the system is idle for a period of time. I have "never
sleep" set up as my power saver options. Usually, it kicks in the screen
saver but these days it often crashes before it goes to screen saver. I
also had a system freeze with error message "Login process has failed to
create the security option dialog. FAILURE - SECURITY OPTIONS". This
afternoon, another strange error which said something like this:
"picture in the slide show did not load in the memory" and the system
froze.

Any help will be appreciated.

Noor Motani

Do you have an external USB storage device (drive)? I had one that was
failing, and if I left my system for any length of time with that drive
attached, I would get the DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE crash, never otherwise.

Bob

 

[ColinR]

I am repeatedly getting this problem on Windows 7 Home Premium, I tried to
foillow the advice given here but the information I get doesn't really help
me work out what is installed that might be causing the issue.

It happens after a period when the system has been idle but not always
immediately after, it can happen after a period of activity following a
period of inactivity (if you see what I mean). I have attached an example of
the "problem details" from last night's crash. Can anyone please tell me how
I find out what it is that is causing the crash.

ColinR

Source Windows
Summary Shut down unexpectedly

Date
‎19/‎01/‎2010 08:17

Status Not reported

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057

Extra information about the problem
BCCode: 9f
BCP1: 00000003
BCP2: 8AFDE6B0
BCP3: 82D78AE0
BCP4: 8A627700
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1