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Last updated: Sep 06, 2021

'Driver power state failure in Windows 10' error occurs: your actions

In this article you will find out:

  • efficient solutions for Windows 10 driver power state failure
  • how to protect your data

Are you ready? Let's read!

About 'driver_power_state_failure on Windows 10' issue

The problem "windows stop code driver power state failure" indicates that you have incompatible drivers. This Blue screen of death error occurs when you try to log on to your device and is often caused by putting your operating system to sleep. Windows 10 driver power status error can be related to devices from different manufacturers, such as Toshiba, HP, Dell, Acer, Alienware, Samsung, Sony, Lenovo. Also, "driver state power failure" can affect various applications installed on your computer, such as Photoshop, AutoCAD, Kaspersky, McAfee, etc.

Use one of the solutions below

Here are few methods that can be helpful and any of them can be your solution.

1. Rollback drivers

First of all, update the drivers on your PC. For this purpose, you can use third-party tools or choose the necessary drivers yourself on the device manufacturer's official website.

If your problem occurred after a recent driver update, then your solution is to roll back the drivers to an older version.

To do this, right-click on Start and open Device Manager.

Enter Device Manager in search bar

Next, go to the "Video adapters" section. Double-click the graphics card and go to the Properties window. Now, click on the Driver tab and click the Roll Back Driver button. Now, you just have to wait for the process to complete.

If Roll Back Driver is not available, you should do something else. You must first uninstall the graphics card driver using Device Manager or any third-party display driver uninstaller. Next, go to the video card manufacturer's website and download an older driver.

2. SFC

Next, you should perform an SFC scan to check and fix any corrupted system files and thereby resolve the blue screen of death error.

Let's get started: press Windows Key + X simultaneously and select Command Prompt (Administrator) or PowerShell (Admin) from the list.

Now, type sfc /scannow and hit Enter at the command prompt. The SFC scan may take about 10 minutes to complete, so do not interrupt it.

Use SFC to fix Driver power state failure

So, open a command prompt as administrator and run the following commands:

DISM.exe / Online / Cleanup Image / scanhealth, press Enter.

DISM.exe / Online / Cleanup-image / Restorehealth, press Enter.

After running both scans of system files, you should check if the problem is resolved.

3. Experiment with preferences

You can also try changing the power settings to solve your problem.

To do this:

  1. 1. Press the Windows Key + S simultaneously and select Control Panel from the list.
  2. 2. Find and click Power Options, and then click Select.
  3. 3. Select Change settings and disable the "Disable Fast Startup" (recommended), "Sleep", and "Hibernation" options.
  4. 4. Save your changes to disable the selected power options.

Next, go to Power Options and find the currently selected plan. Click the Change Plan Settings button and click Change advanced power settings. Now, you should go to the "Hibernation" section and set the value to "Never". Next, you need the "Power Buttons and Cover" section, where you should also set the "Do nothing" value. Save the changes by clicking on "Apply" and "OK". It is also recommended that you set your graphics settings or PCI Express and Link State Power Management to maximum performance. The problem should now be resolved.

If this was not enough, change the power settings of the device.

To do this:

  1. 1. Go to the device manager and find the network adapter.
  2. 2. Open the properties of this network adapter and go to the Power Management tab.
  3. 3. Uncheck the box "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" and save the changes.

If you have multiple devices that support this feature, you should disable it for all problem devices.

4. Turn off antivirus

Sometimes your antivirus can not only help you, but also interfere with Windows and even cause the Driver Power State Failure error to appear.

Turn off temporary antivirus to fix Driver power state failure

In such a case, you will temporarily disable third-party antivirus software. Next, check if this solves the problem. If that worked for you, you might have to completely uninstall third-party antivirus software. To do this, go to the official website of the antivirus application and find out how to properly remove this application.

Subsequently, you can switch to a different antivirus solution or use the services of the built-in Windows Defender Assistant.

You may need to recover data or create a disk image

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