Question How do i fix this "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE" BSOD ?

[chemoiko]

Good day everyone!

Laptop model: ACER Nitro VN7-791G
i5-4210H
GTX 950M/Intel HD 4600
8GB RAM
256GB SSD
500GB HDD

I am experiencing this DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD on my laptop for some unknown reason. This BSOD appears when I leave my laptop idle for about 10 mins or so. This occurs even if my laptop has programs open or if I leave it for a while with no running backgrounds, fresh from an open/restart. I even reinstalled the GPU drivers (both nvidia and intel) as it is one of the fixes that I saw, but it did not help.

I tried running "sfc /scannow" in command prompt and windows powershell but it did not detect any corrupted file. I even reinstalled windows but no luck with that either. My laptop sometimes stutters as well, and when I click on the start button, it does not respond. No response in the shortcut button for task manager too.

When this problem occurs, I have to force restart as well. Even when it is at 100% when trying to restart during BSOD, it gets stuck. Even when waiting about 10 or more minutes, nothing happens.

These events started happening some months back when i put the laptop to sleep during gameplay and ever since then it has been disturbing me.
Could it be hardware related?

HERE IS MY DUMP FILE:

DUMP_FILE_ATTRIBUTES: 0x1008
Kernel Generated Triage Dump

DRVPOWERSTATE_SUBCODE: 3

IMAGE_NAME: pci.sys

MODULE_NAME: pci

FAULTING_MODULE: fffff80549ac0000 pci

BLACKBOXBSD: 1 (!blackboxbsd)


BLACKBOXNTFS: 1 (!blackboxntfs)


BLACKBOXPNP: 1 (!blackboxpnp)


BLACKBOXWINLOGON: 1

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1

PROCESS_NAME: System

STACK_TEXT:
fffff805`439277a8 fffff805`45781166 : 00000000`0000009f 00000000`00000003 ffffd001`85608060 fffff805`439277f8 : nt!KeBugCheckEx
fffff805`439277b0 fffff805`4578103c : 00000000`00000002 fffff805`42907180 fffff805`42907180 00000000`00000000 : nt!PopIrpWatchdogBugcheck+0x122
fffff805`43927830 fffff805`454763ab : ffffd001`87c53d00 00000000`00000000 fffff805`43927af8 00000000`00000000 : nt!PopIrpWatchdog+0xc
fffff805`43927860 fffff805`45473084 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 fffff805`4290d5a8 : nt!KiProcessExpiredTimerList+0x1eb
fffff805`43927990 fffff805`4561ba2e : fffff805`42592010 fffff805`42907180 fffff805`45f4d700 ffffd001`8ad8f040 : nt!KiRetireDpcList+0xaf4
fffff805`43927c40 00000000`00000000 : fffff805`43928000 fffff805`43922000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiIdleLoop+0x9e


IMAGE_VERSION: 10.0.22621.3155

STACK_COMMAND: .cxr; .ecxr ; kb

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_3_nvlddmkm_IMAGE_pci.sys

OSPLATFORM_TYPE: x64

OSNAME: Windows 10

FAILURE_ID_HASH: {a47222af-fbac-bc49-47e0-2cf5d31cc673}

Followup: MachineOwner
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[Lutfij]

Open up Device Manager and see if anything is flagged with a yellow exclamation mark. As for this;
pci.sys
See if manually reinstalling your chipset drivers and see if the issue persists but I've moved away from the 4th Gen platform I had since Windows 10 was causing the BSoD's.

 

[chemoiko]

Open up Device Manager and see if anything is flagged with a yellow exclamation mark. As for this;
pci.sys
See if manually reinstalling your chipset drivers and see if the issue persists but I've moved away from the 4th Gen platform I had since Windows 10 was causing the BSoD's.

Actually im using Windows 11 ( i dont know why the dump file shows windows 10).i have reinstalled the chipset drivers as you said but to no avail. it alternates between DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE and VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL ERROR BSODs.

And this is not the first time. Before when this would happen , I would leave the GPU without use for about 2 weeks and then it would work again.