I got a Blue Screen of Death a few minutes ago, and I’d had another one yesterday. The BSOD is possibly the most annoying thing that can posibly happen, short of total drive failure. Anyway, this time I wrote down the error:
DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
With a little digging it seemed this was related to the fact that two days ago I accidentally put my computer to sleep, instead of powering down. This is a known issue, detailed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941858
Since the fix is apparently a bit tenuous, you have to contact Microsoft to get the hotfix. At first I attempted to do this via their on-line chat, but swiftly gave that up as it managed to crash IE7, and kept telling me it was about to charge me $54.
So I eventually discovered you can just submit an online request for a hotfix, here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935195
So I did, and now I’m waiting. We shall see….
[UPDATE] About three hours later I got an email with a download link and a password. The password is only good for seven days. I installed it, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed. No crashes so far.
How very odd that you need to ask for a fix and get a password for a bug. What a strange world MS live in.
Well, I can understand that they really only want to give the fix to people who really really think they need it – as applying it indiscriminately might cause more problems than it fixes.
This way is an unhappy medium
That was pretty bad but we still have bugs to take care of with Vista. It keeps slowing down and the IE7 has had so many crashes I switched to firefox which I find is better in every way.
Guys, I am using IE6, IE7, Firefox and Oper + Chrome. Not a single bug with Vista. It is running like wild. What issues exactly do you have?
I bought a copy of Vista a year a go and its currently sitting on my shelf, unopened and gathering dust. I have enough problems keeping XP at bay. I’m fully with David regarding browsers, not only does it run smoother, has more functionality, but its a lot more standard compliant than all the other browsers.