When I shut down my computer and get a blue screen with that error message, what does it mean?
When I shut down my computer and get a blue screen with that error message, what does it mean?
Hello. I am having a problem like you might see in my title. Yesterday, something weird happened while I was shutting down the system to turn off the laptop. Of course, a blue screen with DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE appeared. I had to manually turn off the laptop with the power button because it hung forever on this error. Next time I turned the laptop back on using the same button, I wanted to see if anything else would happen. The laptop started up normally and Windows started fine, so I shut down Windows again. This time, it shut down without any problems and the laptop went off. It is the first time something like this has happened me on this laptop. Here are some details about my computer: Laptop model: Lenovo ThinkPad W540 CPU: Intel Core i7 4700mq at 2.4 GHz, turbo boost up to 3.4 GHz GPU: NVIDIA Quadro K2100m and Intel HD Graphics 4600 RAM: 32 GB DDR3L 1600 MHz Samsung (4x8 GB DDR3L Samsung M471B1G73QH0-YK0) PSU: Original Lenovo power supply for this laptop OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 on my computer, version 22H2 MB: Lenovo 20BHS00Q00 Below I also added a link to download the memory dump file after this blue screen. MediaFire is a simple free place that lets you save all your pictures, documents, music, and videos in one spot so you can access them from anywhere or share them everywhere. www.mediafire.com Of course, we open this file with BlueScreenView. From what I've looked at there, the problem seems to be ntoskrnl.exe plus 50bc86. But I don't know exactly what that means - is it related to the graphics card, or the CPU, RAM, or something else? I bought my laptop last year. It was already throwing blue screens almost every time I clicked on the performance tab in task manager, but with a different SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION message. Then I updated the drivers for the NVIDIA Quadro K2100m graphics card from version 398.36 to version 426.78. These were downloaded and installed automatically by Windows Update when I went to update them on the NVIDIA website, and it seemed to help - after updating the drivers for the NVIDIA Quadro graphics card K2100m, I could now normally click on the performance tab in task manager and no more SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION BSOD appeared. But now there is this other DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE blue screen and I have no idea what is causing this behavior. The last thing I did was go to Control Panel, then System and Security, then Power Options, then Change Plan Settings, then Change Advanced Power Settings, then Processor Power Management, then Minimum Processor Status, and on battery power, I set the Minimum Processor Status to 1%. I did this to save my battery so I could work longer on it, but maybe I accidentally caused what happened. I.e., this DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD? PS: I was not overclocking either the graphics card or the processor or other components - all clocks and voltages stayed at default settings.