All of a sudden 2 new Driver Power State Failure BSOD have happened!!

axe0 said:

Yep, run DDU as suggested and with the installation just try to only install drivers. If with the installation there is no choice in what drivers to install just install :)

Thx a bunch

So Axe0 I need help here. I didn't uninstall and reinstall the nvidia drivers yet because I wanted to wait to see if the BSOD happened 1 more time. It just happened but again, the minidump file is nowhere to be found. I wanted to send it to you so I ran the dm log collector and it pulled up the same 2 from the other day and in January. Where is the dump file supposed to be after my laptop restarts from the BSOD Driver Power State Failure??

I checked in c/windows/minidump and only the 1 I sent you the other day and 1 from January is in there. Am I missing something here?? Remember when I wrote that 1 minidump just disappeared because I couldn't find it on my laptop right after the BSOD happened?? Same thing just now and I have the settings set to save the minidumps. Please help because I want to send you the newest crash info. Thx.

I will, gonna get some sleep first cause I was up all night and then do it. Wish me luck.

Just wondering though, why do you think my last 2 BSOD's didn't save the minidumps to my laptop?? It's weird huh?? I checked the c/windows/minidump directory and it wasn't there.

Hey Axe0 I uninstalled and reinstalled my nvidia drivers from Toshiba, restarted my computer and now it says an nvidia graphics card was not detected in my system. Please help me, I don't know what to do.

Okay so I installed it again and this time it worked BUT, as soon as I started a game for a minute and exited it, none of the other games would load. That was a sign that the stupid BSOD was going to happen again and sure enough, that's what happened. After 3 minutes of me trying to load game after game the Driver Power State Failure happened but this time it created a new minidump file which I zipped and attached. Curious to know what the cause is now Axe0.

By the way, this only started happening less than a week ago, I'm wondering if the new "forced" windows 10 update that usually occurs once every 10 days or so was the cause. What do you think Axe0? Should I try a restore point? I am frustrated because everything was working fine until a week or so ago. Could it be Steam? They have been updating a lot lately too so could that be interfering with this? Probably not I guess but I'm trying to think of everything.

Sigh, for the record I tried 2 restore points, 1 for March 2nd and then my internet wifi wasn't working(windows sockets registry entries required for network connectivity are missing) so I tried a restore point for March 9th. Then my internet worked again but as soon as I loaded a game and quit, within 3 minutes the BSOD came up and my computer reset.

Please please help Axe0. Should I try Boris' suggestion about the driver on the nvidia website? I am so confused and depressed.