Help with BSOD DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE 0X0000009F

Welcome to SF Alecs .

0x9F which is DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE that happens in
transitions between power states most commonly S0 (ON state) > S3 (Sleep state)
or vice-verse. You can read more HERE.

The most common cause is a device driver but sometimes it's the hardware itself
that is at fault.

In this case it appears to be coming from the nVidia GPU.

Code:

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f)
A driver has failed to complete a power IRP within a specific time.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000000003, A device object has been blocking an Irp for too long a time
Arg2: fffffa80077dfa10, Physical Device Object of the stack
Arg3: fffff80000b9c3d8, nt!TRIAGE_9F_POWER on Win7 and higher, otherwise the Functional Device Object of the stack
Arg4: fffffa800c671e10, The blocked IRP

Code:

!irp fffffa800c671e10
Irp is active with 4 stacks 3 is current (= 0xfffffa800c671f70)
 No Mdl: No System Buffer: Thread 00000000:  Irp stack trace.  Pending has been returned
     cmd  flg cl Device   File     Completion-Context
 [  0, 0]   0  0 00000000 00000000 00000000-00000000    

            Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
 [ 16, 0]   0  0 fffffa80077dfa10 00000000 fffff8800f1790b4-fffffa800abd9650    
           \Driver\pci    nvlddmkm
            Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>[ 16, 2]   0 e1 fffffa8007967180 00000000 00000000-00000000    pending
           \Driver\nvlddmkm

Code:

!DevExt fffffa80077dfb60

  Device State = PciStarted
  Vendor ID 10de (NVIDIA CORPORATION)  Device ID 0DE9
  Subsystem Vendor ID 1043 (ASUSTEK COMPUTER, INC.)  Subsystem ID 2114
  Header Type 0, Class Base/Sub 03/00  (Display Controller/VGA)

  Logical Device Power State: D0
  Device Wake Level:          Unspecified

Code:

lmvm nvlddmkm
Browse full module list
start             end                 module name
fffff880`0f0e0000 fffff880`0fd17000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Browse all global symbols  functions  data
    Timestamp:        Wed Oct 23 09:21:50 2013

• Driver Reference Table - nvlddmkm.sys

I would first try and install a different known stable driver release.
Please follow this detailed quote and roll-back the driver to a known stable release.

Arc said:

Install the 314.22 WHQL only.

• Uninstall All nvidia items in Control Panel > Programs and features
  
  • 3D Vision Control Driver
  • 3D Vision Driver
  • Graphics Driver
  • HD Audio Driver
  • PhysX
  • nvidia Update
  
  (Are you using nvidia chipset drivers? If so, dont uninstall anything other than those are listed).
• Now follow Drivers - Clean Left over Files after Uninstalling
• Boot normally now. Download 314.22 WHQL. While installing, Select Custom (Advanced) install. In the next page, follow this settings:
  
  

I want to ask you to remove the the Asus USB ChargerPlus utility.

Code:

usbchargerplus.exe    c:\program files (x86)\asus\usbchargerplus\usbchargerplus.exe
aicharger    ASUS Charger Driver    c:\windows\system32\drivers\aicharger.sys

• Driver Reference Table - AiCharger.sys

See how the system behaves for a couple of days and let us know :) .

Be sure to update in due time :).

Happy New Year and Here's my update..
I have removed the Asus USB charger utility and also the Nvidia drivers. I have tried old Nvidia drivers and also the very latest ones that I could find on the Nvidia website. To make a long story short in these few days there were no more BSODs but the computer would frequently hang and then freeze during use. Task Manager would stop responding and then Explorer too until only available solution is to do a hard reset. Had some issues too with the USB 3 Fresco Logic drivers which appeared to be fixed with the latest version found on the web. The usb3 port though still refuses to work with some of my usb2 devices but at least appears to be working with usb3 ones. I have now reinstalled the OS and will wait and see if this has cleared the issues or not.

PS. I have some suspects regarding the SSD crashing the OS on wake up, so I have changed the power settings making it so that the hard drive is never turned off.

Some of the latest nVidia does that (random freezing), but not the 314.22 release.

Let us know how it goes, and a happy new year to you as well :).

Thanks for the update :) .

Did the laptop perform smoothly while running from the HDD?
Is the SSD new or used?
You can try what is depicted in post #8 to see if it helps.