Kernel 41 power error, please help.

[Snowie113]

I have been having this problem for a while now where my PC randomly crashes (restarts mostly) whilst I'm running demanding games.

Games this effects me in is >Dark souls 3>Battlefield 4>GTA 5>Warframe>Fallout 4 (Modded). Although when I turn down settings to very low/720p in dark souls, it seems to fix this issue, which tends to crash the most out of all the games I play.

 

My pc Specs are

Windows 7 64bit Home premium 

 

Corsair CX 750W PSU

Gigabyte GTX 960 (4gb) GPU

AMD 8320E CPU ( ARCTIC Alpine 64 GT Rev.2 cooler)

Asus M5A97 MOBO

One WD 1tb hdd running windows and games 

One Seagate barracuda 1Tb backup storage 

In a Zalman Z11 Plus case.

5 case fans

 

All temps seem to be running fine whilst in games, never exceeding over 70degree's on any component from what I can tell.

All parts are regularly dusted. 

I have tried updating drivers and all that goodness. cranked fans up to keep everything cool, but nothing I do seems to stop the crashing other then turning graphics down to xbox 360 levels.

I have unchecked all settings in windows that restarts pc after an error > all power settings are at high performance or similar.

 

If anyone has any ideas on what could be causing these crashes I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks LTT peeps

[adithyay328]

Well, have you been hard stopping your PC? I used to have this exact issue, I just stopped hard stopping and it fixed itself.

[Snowie113]

I only ever do that if I have to, otherwise I just turn it off normally.

[JefferyD90]

18 minutes ago, Snowie113 said:

I have been having this problem for a while now where my PC randomly crashes (restarts mostly) whilst I'm running demanding games.

Games this effects me in is >Dark souls 3>Battlefield 4>GTA 5>Warframe>Fallout 4 (Modded). Although when I turn down settings to very low/720p in dark souls, it seems to fix this issue, which tends to crash the most out of all the games I play.

 

My pc Specs are

Windows 7 64bit Home premium 

 

Corsair CX 750W PSU

Gigabyte GTX 960 (4gb) GPU

AMD 8320E CPU ( ARCTIC Alpine 64 GT Rev.2 cooler)

Asus M5A97 MOBO

One WD 1tb hdd running windows and games 

One Seagate barracuda 1Tb backup storage 

In a Zalman Z11 Plus case.

5 case fans

 

All temps seem to be running fine whilst in games, never exceeding over 70degree's on any component from what I can tell.

All parts are regularly dusted. 

I have tried updating drivers and all that goodness. cranked fans up to keep everything cool, but nothing I do seems to stop the crashing other then turning graphics down to xbox 360 levels.

I have unchecked all settings in windows that restarts pc after an error > all power settings are at high performance or similar.

 

If anyone has any ideas on what could be causing these crashes I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks LTT peeps

That is a VERY generic error message. 

 

[harry4742]

Has something to do with power, can you try a different psu?

[Snowie113]

11 minutes ago, JefferyD90 said:

That is a VERY generic error message. 

 

I will have to dive into this and see what's going on thanks!

[Snowie113]

8 minutes ago, harry4742 said:

Has something to do with power, can you try a different psu?

I can try another psu although its only 500w so I'm not sure if it would be capable. 

[JefferyD90]

18 minutes ago, Snowie113 said:

I can try another psu although its only 500w so I'm not sure if it would be capable. 

It has NOTHING to do with power.  Please see video.