driver_power_state_faliure

Some context. Laptop seems to behave weirdly whenever I connect an external USB storage device. This ranges from extremely sluggish speeds when navigating Windows explorer to Strange UI glitches. All of this culminated in a BSOD yesterday night. I had plugged in the drive for some work. Post...

Hi everyone, I'm having an issue with BSODs that I started getting around... March or sometime before that, and I can't place a finger on what's causing them to happen besides what the crash .dmps have been showing me—something about ntoskrnl.exe in every single crash .dmp from a program I use...

On February 9, I received 3 blue-screens in a row. The first two stop codes were "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE" and then the third stop code was "DRIVER VERIFIER DETECTED VIOLATION." I am not very familiar with blue screen stop codes, and I looked them up and found no problems that might have...

I recently upgraded my EVGA GTX 660 Ti 2GB to a MSI R9 380 4G (4GB). In some cases, the R9 380 4G runs better than the 660 Ti, but more often than not, the 660 Ti will outperform it. For example, the R9 380 4G can run DOOM on ultra settings 1080p well, but my old 660 Ti could run Minecraft with...