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    6920G "Driver powerstate failure"

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Kittie Rose, Jul 6, 2010.

  1. Kittie Rose

    Kittie Rose Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm getting this blue screen fairly consistantly.

    What could be causing it? I thought maybe it could be Rightmark CPU clock's undervolting settings, but it doesn't seem to be as I increased them twice.

    Also, the CPU clock utility hasn't been updated in over 2 years... rather worrying.

    What's most likely to be causing this?
     
  2. TehSuigi

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    You again? This 6920G has been nothing but grief for you, hasn't it? ;)

    Have you made any hardware/driver changes recently?
    The "Driver Power State Failure" appears to be tied to drivers putting devices in an inconsistent or invalid power state (partial duh there).

    If RMClock is throwing errors at you, why not try ThrottleStop? It's got undervolting capacities now, too.
     
  3. Kittie Rose

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    I'm using Throttlestop as well. Should I not be using RMclock and Throttlestop at the same time?

    How do I undervolt with Throttlestop?
     
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    You adjust the Voltage ID box for each of the four modes, I believe.
    I only use ThrottleStop when I'm anticipating throttling (which is everytime I'm gaming in this heat :) ).
     
  5. Kittie Rose

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    Well, it's not RMClock since I have it closed. I have no idea what it could be as I've updated nothing but the graphics card drivers lately, and they've been changed at least twice with no avail. Unless all the newest set of drivers have that problem.

    This is just ludicrous, getting constant blue screens like this isn't acceptable. I have to live with a machine that could shut down randomly at any time. For my college course next year I will not be able to use this machine.
     
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    What set of graphics drivers did you get?
    How did you install them?

    Try going back to the previous version of graphics driver just in case.