- Enter Safe Mode and remove recently installed drivers.
- Update your drivers.
- Perform an SFC scan.
- Change your Power Settings.
- Change your Power Plan Settings.
- Disable or remove your antivirus software.
- Revert your graphics card drivers to the older version.
What Causes driver Power State Failure?
A stop code “driver power state failure” blue screen of death error is usually caused by a power control issue with a device connected to your PC. If a device driver is out-of-date or faulty, Windows' ability to control power settings for connected devices might be affected.
How do I update my power drivers Windows 10?
- In the search box on the taskbar, enter device manager, then select Device Manager.
- Select a category to see names of devices, then right-click (or press and hold) the one you'd like to update.
- Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
- Select Update Driver.
What does Driver_power_state_failure mean?
As Windows stop codes go, DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE is fairly interesting. It indicates that a driver on your PC has fallen into an invalid or inconsistent power state. Thus, it usually occurs as PCs resume normal activity from some kind of Sleep or Hibernation state.
How do I stop blue screen?
- Uninstall incompatible software.
- Run a memory checker.
- Check for hard drive errors.
- Remove non-essential peripherals.
- Replace defective or incompatible expansion cards.
- Run SetupDiag after a failed Windows update.
- Perform a clean install.
How do you deal with driver power state failure?
Keeping Windows Updated In most cases, keeping your system updated with new device drivers will resolve a driver power state failure BSOD error. If your drivers are buggy, however, you may need to downgrade to the last working driver or consider upgrading the affected device to a newer model (or removing it entirely).