Pc Crashing while gaming

[david cassar]

Hey guys

 

For about a month now my pc has been crashing while playing games. It doesnt matter what game I play after a while it just crashes (no blue screen of death, the screen just goes black and the pc shuts down abruptly). After it crashes I can't start the pc again until I switch the psu off and on again. I've tried reseating my ram and formatting and reinstalling windows but nothing has worked. In event viewer it gives me the critical error "kernel power 41". 

 

My specs are:
Ryzen 5 1400 stock

MSI B450m pro m2

16gb team vulcan 2400mhz ram (8x2)

Zotac Gtx 970

Kingston 480gb SSD

bequiet system power 8 550w power supply

Windows 10 home 64bit

 

Not sure what the issue is but I was thinking it could be the power supply. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Radium_Angel]

16 minutes ago, david cassar said:

Hey guys

 

For about a month now my pc has been crashing while playing games. It doesnt matter what game I play after a while it just crashes (no blue screen of death, the screen just goes black and the pc shuts down abruptly). After it crashes I can't start the pc again until I switch the psu off and on again. I've tried reseating my ram and formatting and reinstalling windows but nothing has worked. In event viewer it gives me the critical error "kernel power 41". 

 

My specs are:
Ryzen 5 1400 stock

MSI B450m pro m2

16gb team vulcan 2400mhz ram (8x2)

Zotac Gtx 970

Kingston 480gb SSD

bequiet system power 8 550w power supply

Windows 10 home 64bit

 

Not sure what the issue is but I was thinking it could be the power supply. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Typically (typically) a "crash" like that is due to power loss as the system cannot provide enough power under load.

Have you looked at the thermals of the GPU and CPU during load? Overheating can also be a culprit.

[david cassar]

51 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Typically (typically) a "crash" like that is due to power loss as the system cannot provide enough power under load.

Have you looked at the thermals of the GPU and CPU during load? Overheating can also be a culprit.

my gpu hovers around 70 degrees celsius while my cpu doesnt go over 40.

[Radium_Angel]

17 minutes ago, david cassar said:

my gpu hovers around 70 degrees celsius while my cpu doesnt go over 40.

Under load that's fine. 

[el_murdoque]

Does it take roughly the same amount of time to crash each time?

Do you have any overclocking of the CPU going on?

[david cassar]

11 minutes ago, el_murdoque said:

Does it take roughly the same amount of time to crash each time?

Do you have any overclocking of the CPU going on?

Usually it takes like 20 or 30 mins sometimes it happens quicker. My CPU isn't overclocked

[david cassar]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

Under load that's fine. 

Since it isn't overheating do you think it might be the power supply?

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, david cassar said:

Since it isn't overheating do you think it might be the power supply?

That's my assumption as well, not overheating, sudden loss of power, then yeah, bad PSU