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HP omen max 16 BSODS

when im watching videos/play game im getting bsods , got 10 in 2-3 days
im afraid to damage my laptop please help me

AI recap :
0x9F_3_nvlddmkm_IMAGE_pci.sys is a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE =(BSOD) means your NVIDIA graphics driver (nvlddmkm.sys) failed to switch power states properly (such as waking from sleep, shutting down, or shifting between integrated and dedicated graphics)

Laptop: HP OMEN MAX Gaming Laptop 16-ah0xxx

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU (hybrid Optimus, Intel iGPU + NVIDIA dGPU)

GPU driver: 32.0.16.1088 (2026-07-22) - also reproduced on the prior driver,

32.0.15.9636 (2026-04-23)

OS: Windows 11 Pro, build 26200 (26100.8972), x64

- Occurred while watching video in the Brave browser (GPU-accelerated video

decode/playback active at time of crash).

- Hyper-V / all virtualization disabled at the firmware level (VT-x off in

BIOS)

- System had been up for 3 hours, 4 minutes before the crash - not an

immediate boot/resume-time failure.

- Bugcheck detail:

BUGCHECK_CODE: 0x9f

BUGCHECK_P1: 3 (device object blocking an IRP too long)

DRVPOWERSTATE_SUBCODE: 3

IMAGE_NAME: pci.sys

FAULTING_MODULE: pci.sys

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_3_nvlddmkm_IMAGE_pci.sys

PROCESS_NAME: System

Stack: nt!PopIrpWatchdogBugcheck -> nt!PopIrpWatchdog ->

nt!KiProcessExpiredTimerList -> nt!KiTimerExpiration ->

nt!KiRetireDpcList -> nt!KiIdleLoop

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