Vista x86, Workstation 6.5, USB devices and DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE

[Mihies]

Has anybody experienced this problem:

If I connect and disconnect USB devices to my guest OS (which is XP) it fails to connect them after a while (let's say after 3rd or 2nd switch). Then I suspend the guest OS and it never finishes suspending - it is doing something to hard disk all the time though (HD light blinks). And when I shutdown/sleep my host OS (Vista x86) it almost shuts down (it takes a lot of time, i.e. 30 minutes and all the time there is a disk activity) but at the end it goes to blue screen instead to off.

Running WinDbg on mini dump I get this description (below). Any idea what's happening?

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f)

A driver is causing an inconsistent power state.

Arguments:

Arg1: 00000004, The power transition timed out waiting to synchronize with the Pnp

subsystem.

Arg2: 00000258, Timeout in seconds.

Arg3: 00000000

Arg4: 00000000

Debugging Details:

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DRVPOWERSTATE_SUBCODE: 4

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 2

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR: 0x9F

PROCESS_NAME: System

CURRENT_IRQL: 2

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 827145d7 to 825080e3

STACK_TEXT:

82530b4c 827145d7 0000009f 00000004 00000258 nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x1e

82530b68 824f1c40 8e437a10 8e437a00 e769c530 nt!PopBuildDeviceNotifyListWatchdog+0x27

82530c88 824f1800 82530cd0 88386c02 82530cd8 nt!KiTimerListExpire+0x367

82530ce8 824f13c3 00000000 00000000 00052d50 nt!KiTimerExpiration+0x22a

82530d50 824efedd 00000000 0000000e 00000000 nt!KiRetireDpcList+0xba

82530d54 00000000 0000000e 00000000 00000000 nt!KiIdleLoop+0x49

STACK_COMMAND: kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:

nt!PopBuildDeviceNotifyListWatchdog+27

827145d7 cc int 3

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1

SYMBOL_NAME: nt!PopBuildDeviceNotifyListWatchdog+27

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: nt

IMAGE_NAME: ntkrpamp.exe

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 48d1b7fa

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_nt!PopBuildDeviceNotifyListWatchdog+27

BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_nt!PopBuildDeviceNotifyListWatchdog+27

Followup: MachineOwner

[Mihies]

Nobody? I am getting this BSOD each time I shutdown Vista x86 - but only if I opened at least one guest.

[orgwizard]

Yep, good to see I'm not the only one, though guess no one has found a solution.

was aobut to back up to 6.0.5.

Host machine is Vista running sp2 beta, so was thinking maybe that has something to do with it.

Have any more info to share about your host machine? what av software is running, maybe make model.

wonder if we can find a similaritiy that has something to do with it.

[Scissor]

Don't know if this is relevant, but from this Blog...

- http://blogs.technet.com/hot/archive/2009/02/17/feb-10-feb-16-hot-fix-kb-articles-weekly-release-win...

.. is this entry...

- 955986 - The operating system may stop responding when you try to put the operating system into S3 sleep after you perform a surprise removal of a USB device on a Windows-based computer - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955986

[orgwizard]

shouldn't apply to me, as I lose my usb ports after using vmware. I'm not putting the system to sleep or anthing like that.

But to get my usb ports back, I have to reboot, and that's when the bsod eventually happens.

[Mihies]

Hi guys,

I don't have much time to find a solution or workaround on this. Instead I'll just reinstall host OS. I have to reinstall it anyway.

[HP68]

Anyone that found a solution to this?

Happens everytime I have WS 6.5.2 started, and then put Vista into Suspend Mode. Takes forever to suspend, and when I wake it up again it says it have recovered from an unexpected shutdown.

[BrianDrab]

EXACTLY the same issue here. I have a Dell Precision M4300 machine with Vista Ultimate SP2 32-bit and VMWare Workstation 6.5.2.

Maybe this is the solution finally.