M5-481PT, core i5, 6 GB ram, 500 GB SSD, Windows 8, built in 2012.
I have an aspire M5 that started to boot up real slow some time ago. Start up time is over 5 minutes. Once in a while i get the blue screen the says Driver Power State Failure. i tried all of the fixes that show up online with no progress what so ever. i did a clean install from the discs and checked for all updatged drivers but the problem persisted. All of this was happening on my original drive so i concluded that it was probably the drive itself and replaced it with a new Samsung SSD and did anouther clean install from the discs. Same problem persists. It is obviously not software so what could it be?
