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    M50VM BSOD during Sleep mode & Intel Wifi driver

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Turbogear, Feb 10, 2009.

  1. Turbogear

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    Hello guys,

    I own an ASUS M50VM since August 2008 with Vista preinstalled.

    The Notebook worked fine until mid of October 2008, and than suddenly I started to get bluescreen problems every time I try to put the system to Sleep mode.

    Actually, it hangs while trying to go to sleep mode and after about 10 minutes it gives a bluescreen with the message: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE.

    I called ASUS support many times but all their suggestions did not work. :mad: :mad:

    Finally, I found a solution after doing google search for a few weeks. :D

    The problem is with the Intel WIFI LINK 5100 driver power management.
    The Bluescreen issue stopped when I unchecked the option "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" in the INTEL WIFI device management settings.

    I reinstalled fresh copy of Vista a couple of times now and tried different versions of WIFI driver, but problem returned every time after a few days. The only thing that works is turning off this power management feature. :mad:

    It seems that this problem starts after some microsoft update but I don't know which one.

    Has anybody else experience this issue and knows which Intel WIFI LINK 5100 driver will solve it?

    Note: After many problems with Vista, I have also installed XP, and this problem does not occur there. :)
     
    Turbogear, Feb 10, 2009
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