Blue Screen of Death

[girarcat]

Hi everyone!
I've been having my SP2 for about 3 weeks. Throughout these weeks, I've had a blue screen of death 3-4 times (which makes an average of 1 blue screen per week). The last one was 10 min ago, telling me the computer had to be rebooted because of a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. That's the 2nd time I get this error. The other times the error was something about Watchdog Violation, or something similar.

I bet the Driver Power State Failure is related to the faulty December 10th firmware. I hope I never see it again when they release the new update after Christmas.

Am I the only one having those Blue Screens? It's quite frustrating. I hadn't seen a Blue Screen of Death for many years. None of my "modern" computers have ever had a blue screen, however, with my brand new SP2 I'm experiencing them every week.

Is it just me, or is it happening to everyone with the faulty firmware?

thanks!

 

[jnjroach]

It is one of the impacts that some are seeing from the failed firmware. Update is supposed to be coming in January.

 

[reach]

I haven't heard about anybody having bluescreens due to the broken driver. I didn't ever have one, but had all kinds of broken driver related issues.
A bluescreen is about hardware defects. In a normal PC you'd start replacing RAM, graphics card etc. Since you can't do this with your SP2 I'd return it.

 

[jnjroach]

There has been similar reports on the Official Support Forums..... The DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE is typically a Power Management Driver issue. The issue with the Firmware is it included Power Management, Wireless and GPU updates and depending when it failed could impact one or more systems.

 

[Rvacha]

I've had a couple of BSODs to go along with my crash on wakes - and this is an improvement since I changed everything to hibernate instead of sleep