Windows 10: BSOD DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE driver storport.sys

Hi,I have a Dell Inspiron 15 which for the past couple of months has suffered from a strange issue where I bring the laptop out of sleep mode and log back in, what then happens is that when moving the mouse around trackpad it seems to stutter and pause then flies off the screen. When this happens I restart the laptop but it then BSODs, when the laptop comes back eventually it takes 10 minutes of so to get back to the login screen I have used BlueScreenView to check the minidump file which says storport.sys is the culprit some say ntoskrnl.exe is the culprit.Looking through device manage

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Are Storport and RAID drivers necessary on my laptop

I have a 4 yrs old Vaio laptop that I updated to win 10 some months ago. (Win 10 version 1511 build 10586.36)

It runs fine, I have no complains but I am trying to lighten the burden that my poor PC has to withstand with the myriad of drivers and services that I think most of them are totally unnecessary and eat up memory and CPU cycles.

So I decided to start from the device drivers that are loaded in my PC and ask for help from the community to know if I can uninstall them safely.

This is the first of a series of post I plan to post and hope that they will also help others that are in my same circumstance.

So, regarding Storport drivers, this is what I found as definition:

storage port driver that is especially suitable for use with high-performance buses, such as fibre channel buses, and RAID adapters.

Now, can somebody explain to me why my laptop needs those drivers. (and same question for RAID drivers)

Here is a list of all the drivers that I suppose are not necessary for a humble Vaio laptop with a miserable 5400 rpm Seagate drive: Can I uninstall them?

3ware LSI 3ware SCSI Storport Driver LSI
c:\windows\system32\drivers\3ware.sys 18-May-15 5:58 PM

ADP80XX PMC-Sierra Storport Driver For SPC8x6G SAS/SATA controller
PMC-Sierra c:\windows\system32\drivers\adp80xx.sys
09-Apr-15 4:19 PM

LSI_SAS LSI Fusion-MPT SAS Driver (StorPort) LSI Corporation
c:\windows\system32\drivers\lsi_sas.sys 25-Mar-15 3:06 PM

LSI_SAS2i LSI SAS Gen2 Driver (StorPort) LSI Corporation
c:\windows\system32\drivers\lsi_sas2i.sys 08-Apr-15 4:28 PM

LSI_SAS3i Avago SAS Gen3 Driver (StorPort) Avago Technologies
c:\windows\system32\drivers\lsi_sas3i.sys 09-Apr-15 1:37 PM

LSI_SSS LSI SSS PCIe/Flash Driver (StorPort) LSI Corporation
c:\windows\system32\drivers\lsi_sss.sys 15-Mar-13 7:09 PM

megasas MEGASAS RAID Controller Driver for Windows Avago Technologies
c:\windows\system32\drivers\megasas.sys 04-Mar-15 10:06 PM

megasr LSI MegaRAID Software RAID Driver LSI Corporation, Inc.
c:\windows\system32\drivers\megasr.sys 03-Jun-13 5:32 PM

nvraid NVIDIA® nForce(TM) RAID Driver NVIDIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvraid.sys 21-Apr-14 1:58 PM

percsas2i MEGASAS RAID Controller Driver for Windows
LSI Corporation c:\windows\system32\drivers\percsas2i.sys
05-Feb-15 6:21 PM

percsas3i MEGASAS RAID Controller Driver for Windows
Avago Technologies c:\windows\system32\drivers\percsas3i.sys
04-Feb-15 6:22 PM

SiSRaid2 SiS RAID Stor Miniport Driver Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
c:\windows\system32\drivers\sisraid2.sys 24-Sep-08 1:58 PM

SiSRaid4 SiS AHCI Stor-Miniport Driver Silicon Integrated Systems
c:\windows\system32\drivers\sisraid4.sys 01-Oct-08 5:26 PM

vsmraid VIA RAID DRIVER FOR AMD-X86-64 VIA Technologies Inc.,Ltd
c:\windows\system32\drivers\vsmraid.sys 22-Apr-14 2:51 PM

VSTXRAID VIA StorX RAID Controller Driver VIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\drivers\vstxraid.sys 21-Jan-13 2:30 PM

 

BSOD : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE

I have a laptop ASUS X550JK, I get the BSOD with DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE, it happens randomly, Before the BSOD occurs, I notice a rise in CPU temperature and the fan makes noise





When I check the dump file, I get this :





What I've tried:

1. I've tried to install Windows 10 with USB and CD/DVD Drive as
   well, but the same issue happened every time.
   
2. I've updated all drivers (using Driver Booster,Driver
   Reviver and DriverPack solution).
   
3. I've changed some Power settings.
   

NOTE: With Linux (Ubuntu 19.04 & Mint), everything works just fine, I've used Linux for 1 week, and I didn't face any issue with it.

Can anyone help me to get resolve this issue, I've spent a lot of time to solve it with no success

 

BSOD when running on battery - driver_power_state_failure

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Hello,

Since a few months my laptop - MSI GS60 2PE running Windows 10 Home - started giving BSOD's with the DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE after a seemingly random time when running on the battery. As I'm using it every day for work,
I depend on the machine and managed by just plugging it in.

While that works, I know it should be possible to make it work on the battery...

I've recently "reset this pc" using the build in option in Windows 10, after which I installed all "latest" drivers from the MSI site. I also re-installed all programs required to do my job and play some games.

Yesterday, Windows wanted to install the Fall Creators Update: I did. Booting the laptop while unplugged now gave me another BSOD, though with a different message: VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR. This seems to point to the Intel HD 4600 or Nvidia
GTX 870M.

To sum up some other issues I was starting out with...

Syptoms

• When unplugged, a BSOD occurs after a seemingly random time. (driver_power_state_failure)
  • After updating to the fall creators version, it also throws video_dxgkrnl_fatal_error; feels like a coin flip which one it will show.
    
• Bluetooth was failing after a couple of minutes, regardless whether I used it or not and whether the laptop was plugged in or not.
  
• Shutting down Windows would sometimes just heat up the CPU, make the fan go haywire and do nothing but turning the screen off.

I've tried / did:

• All drivers are up to date. This was verified by using DriverView and manually going over all of the non-Microsoft drivers.
  • This step fixed symptom 2 described above. Next to the latest version there was some patch (or 3 major versions ago) that couldn't be removed by conventional means. The build in troubleshooter actually removed it and bluetooth is now working
    as it should.
  • The HD4600 drivers were removed from the device management and I installed the latest according to the Intel site.
  • DDU was used in safe mode to remove the Nvidia driver and the latest one was installed.
• BlueScreenViewer shows the minidumps and lots of drivers.
  
  • The one created when the driver_power_state_failure occurred is useless, as nothing is marked but the ntoskrnl.
  • The one created when the video_dxgkrnl_fatal_error occurred shows ntoskrnl, watchdog and dxgkrnl.
    
• A clean boot (disabling all non-Microsoft services and disabling all startup programs) still results in the BSOD.
  
• Booting the laptop while plugged in, letting it run for a couple of minutes so everything is started and then unplugging it also seems to work.
  • Yesterday, I unplugged it and could work with it for about 2.5 hours before it called out for power: I doubt the battery is the issue.
  • I was asked to run a battery check (powercfg -energy -output ...) but that doesn't seem to show any issues. (design capacity '55031' Last full
    charge '38556'. The laptop is over three years old.)
    
• Starting in safe mode with networking will not result in a BSOD. (At least not within the hour I left it on.)
  
• Unchecking 'turn on fast startup' - as suggested in so many posts - in the power settings only causes issues.
  • When unchecked, windows won't shut down properly.
  • When checked, it does shut down normally. This seems to be the
    fix for symptom 3.
    
• Running various Windows troubleshooters didn't do much. Only the 'Windows Update' said it had some fixes regarding the database and 'fixed' it.
  
• The bios is up to date. (Version E16H2IMS.112)

Any help would be welcome.

Cheers!

PS: yes this post looks a lot like my
previous post, but that was marked answered because a moderator thinks all checks suggested can be performed within three days, next to a daily routine.