On a mailing list, a member who is also a Terry’s Computer Tips subscriber, wrote that his Windows XP computer had craahed with the infamous blue screen of death. In his case, he had an error message that said “Driver_Power_State_Failure”.

I’ve seen that error message before on my own computers, not often and not repeated.

That’s the real issue. If you have a repeatable problem, you have something that you need to fix. If it happens once, it just might be the particular combination of programs you ran that day, in the particular order, that set up the problem. Or, it might have been one of those stray cosmic rays…

I did some research on Microsoft’s site and turned up Microsoft’s answer at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=246243

Read more in my article Windows Blue Screen of Death