Another 9F example!

I run into 0x9F: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE a fair bit. I figured I'd share another example just to show how simple they can be, and how nothing really changes in regards to troubleshooting them if the fault isn't obvious.

Not going to share an entire dump, just quick & easy troubleshooting for a quick & easy bugcheck:

BugCheck 9F, {3, 86404030, 83135ae0, 85b49570}
Probably caused by : pci.sys

As you can see, this specific dump was faulting pci.sys. You can pretty much bet your life that this is not the cause, so let's go ahead and see what else we can find. As you know (and if you don't already, please visit my earlier 9F blog post that goes into detail) to get more details on what specifically caused the crash. You're going to want to locate the address of the blocked IRP. In this case, for this specific dump, the address for the blocked IRP was the 3rd parameter which is 85b49570.

Once you have located the blocked IRP address, run an !irp address here. So, for example, for this specific dump we would run:

!irp 85b49570

 Now we get the following:

 0: kd> !irp 85b49570
Irp is active with 4 stacks 3 is current (= 0x85b49628)
No Mdl: No System Buffer: Thread 00000000: Irp stack trace.
cmd flg cl Device File Completion-Context
[ 0, 0] 0 0 00000000 00000000 00000000-00000000
Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 0, 0] 0 0 00000000 00000000 00000000-00000000
Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>[ 16, 2] 0 e1 8674c028 00000000 83331d5d-885bc728 Success Error Cancel pending
Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\Rt86win7.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for Rt86win7.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for Rt86win7.sys
\Driver\RTL8167 nt!PopSystemIrpCompletion

I have bolded what's important here, which is that it Rt86win7.sys was the loaded driver at the time that was the true fault. The > indicates that the specific driver was loaded at the time of the crash.

Rt86win7.sys is a Realtek NIC driver, therefore I instructed the user to visit Realtek's website and update his / her network drivers.

That's about it : )