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    Blue Screen Error on dv6-6199

    Discussion in 'HP' started by asdf8, Oct 28, 2011.

  1. asdf8

    asdf8 Newbie

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    Hi,

    I have a 2 month old dv6-6199se, and i was watching a movie on VLC player when i got a blue screen error saying "Driver Power State Failure". I dont have much installed on it expect itunes, quicktime, vlc player, and utorrent (and everything else that came with it). The computer booted up normally the next time, but i noticed that youtube videos were not opening properly (as in, they would play 5 seconds and then give an error saying cannot be played). This is the first thing i noticed odd since the blue screen, but there might be more as well. Is the blue screen something i should be worried about? Will it give me more problems later? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
     
    asdf8, Oct 28, 2011
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  2. myrcgarage

    myrcgarage Notebook Consultant

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    I just had a blue screen 2 days ago since I received my DV6TQE about 1.5 months ago. Mine was worse than yours when that happened: it couldn't start windows and it had to restore from a previous restore point, which was created that evening when Windows Update did an update. So far so good, knock on wood.

    You can try to uninstall Adobe Flash and reinstall it and see if Youtube is fixed. OR you could try to restore from a previous restore point - check the latest restore point and see if you have installed anything since or anything you don't care losing. If so, restore from the last good restore point and things should be back to normal. But I would try reinstalling Adobe Flash first.
     
    myrcgarage, Oct 28, 2011
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