So, about a month ago, I bought myself a shiny new G750JM-DS71 notebook from Newegg, and ever since I've been having this issue. Almost
every day, at random intervals, I get blue screens of death indicating a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. I'm completely at a loss as to what could possibly be causing this. At first I suspected hardware, and after a two-week long war with Newegg, they finally replaced the thing. And now I have another brand new one... with the same exact issue. I've done a bit of homework on how to analyze a MEMORY.DMP, and details of an !analyze -v and !irp are available at the following link.
http://pastebin.com/CHTDyuQuFrom this log, I don't see any implication of any driver but pci.sys and ACPI. But it has to be SOMETHING software-wise, or else why would two completely different notebooks have the same issue? I've updated the BIOS to 206 (BSODs started before I did), disabled GPU Tweak, disabled USB Charger Plus, everything that might affect drivers and power states, and nothing seems to stop this from happening.
Twice it's occurred while the notebook was closed (not in sleep mode,) once when returning from sleep, once during a game, once during a Livestream, and one during casual web browsing, so usage doesn't seem to affect when it happens.
Now, unfortunately, I didn't think to change memory dump types to minidumps, so if anyone wants the actual dump to analyze, you'll have to wait for this to happen to me again... I doubt you'll be waiting longer than a day. If I can't figure out a solution to this, I'm going to have to go for a refund, because this is getting ridiculous, when once every 24 hours I suddenly lose everything I'm doing.
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only two programs I have installed that could be playing with drivers are MalwareBytes and COMODO Firewall - both popular software that I've used in tandem on plenty of other systems, so I don't see why they could possibly cause a BSOD, let alone one referencing a power failure.
The real pain here is that since the issue takes so much (~24 hours on average?) time to reoccur, Newegg has been giving me serious issues with my returns, since they seem to only test the notebook for a few hours before assuming there's nothing wrong, so I can't even claim the no lemon policy.
(Apologies if I seem a little frustrated, but I've been going back and forth with this thing and Newegg for a month and constantly going nearly-24-hour intervals of getting my hopes up only for a ":(" face to pop up in my face and laugh at my misfortune.)
EDIT: 332.60 drivers are a bandaid fix, but Microsoft may have ninja'd this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2983139
