Windows 10: All of a sudden 2 new Driver Power State Failure BSOD have happened!!

All I wrote was that it worked fine until the other day.

My question is that how can these drivers be outdated if Toshiba hasn't given us an update in 3 months? That is what I am confused about since you wrote that the drivers are outdated. That doesn't make sense to me and I am confused. Hopefully you can explain that to me because I trust your knowledge.

 

Let me explain a bit more. I assume you've installed the drivers some time ago, because the drivers Toshiba provided are some months ago released. If that is correct than I don't understand what you mean with 'it worked the other day'.

About the outdated part, I forgot you have a laptop and was as a standard thing thinking about a desktop for which it is outdated.

 

I meant that there had been no BSOD's at all until the other day when it happened for the 1st time since December. Then it happened this morning also but for some reason I can't find the dump file for that one on my laptop.

Secondly, now that you know I have a laptop and the current driver (yes it is 3 months old but there is not a new driver update since), what does that mean about my laptop getting 2 BSOD's??? Is there something wrong all of a sudden with the driver or is it really "outdated"??

 

It could be the driver became corrupted or something.

 

Hmmm, interesting.

You are awesome!!

By the way, what did the dump file tell you exactly about the nvidia drivers since they aren't outdated as you said earlier? Just that they are the cause of the BSOD??

 

Also where is the PhysX driver you want me to install after I uninstall the nvidia stuff?? It isn't anywhere in the Toshiba driver updates, just the December NVidia driver that I already have installed that I will reinstall once I uninstall everything. Thx

 

The dump simply showed the nvlddmkm as a cause.

What I posted is my template for handling the nvidia drivers, in most cases it is being used for desktops.
The drivers for the desktop are an install package which contains some more drivers, only a few of them are required. There it is mainly for, I don't know how it is with laptops so I keep it to be sure I'm not missing anything.

 

Sometimes the laptop and desktop manufacturers are not updating the drivers for some hardware in the Support section.

There is an update from nVidia from March 8th:
364.51 - WHQL

Cheers, Boris *Smile

 

You know that is not smart Boris... the drivers laptop manufacturers provide are usually modified.

 

I saw that update Boris and I read the pdf file and it doesn't list my nvidia 950m as a supported card, only 980m and 970m. I am afraid to use this.

 

So is Boris correct Axe0?

Also, that link you gave me to uninstall nvidia, where is the PhysX? Is it available to install on that DDU after I uninstall nvidia?

 

Table 3.2 Supported NVIDIA Notebook GPUsConsumer Products NotesGeForce GTX 980 for notebooksGeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 870MGeForce GTX 860MGeForce GTX 850MGeForce GTX 840MGeForce GTX 830MGeForce GTX 780MGeForce GTX 770MGeForce GTX 765MGeForce GTX 760M

From driver 364.51 additional notes. Again, 950m is not listed.

 

Well Mikey, I think you could try it considering how long it has taken to troubleshoot this issue. Of course you could also contact Toshiba support and asked them what would be the safest approach to your problem!

Also noticed this if you scroll down on the driver download page:
Attachment 69761

Cheers, Boris *Smile

 

I wouldn't install any driver that is not from Toshiba.

DDU removes everything at once, it is the installation that shows it (again not sure with laptops)

 

Yeah I saw that, but when I click on the 47 page pdf for that driver it didn't list the 950m as a supported card(pasted that for you in an above post) so it is confusing.