BSOD kernal Power

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I keep getting a random Blue screen of death on my PC. In the event viewer it's called "Event 41, Kernal Power". My PC is only around 3 months old and I have already had almost 40 of these BSOD's. The latest BSOD was when on the desktop with no programs running at all shortly after start up.

My friend told me to post the event log so here it is:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-12-08T12:19:28.144013500Z" />
<EventRecordID>46511</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>SwaineOCUK</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>





I know the basics around computers but not much of the technical stuff so when people ask to preform memtest's etc I don't know how to do these.. Is there a problem with my power unit or is this a system bug?
 
You probably have a serious hardware problem. Bad overclock, incorrect voltage or something along those lines. If you didn't build the system yourself contact the system builder directly.
 
Phone them, leave a webnote or post in the customer service forum before you start taking tips from randoms on the internet.
 
Kernel 41 simply means the PC wasn't shutdown correct and lost power. To run Memtest86 you can download and burn the .img file to a disk or create a USB boot drive.
You then boot from this disk and run the test.

You can also download Blue Screen Viewer http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html - This will show what driver crashed when the BSOD happened listed in Red Post back your results.

From my experience Most times a PC starts to BSOD its mostly the RAM at fault.
 
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