Every now and then, I get a freeze up on screen, a buzzing sound, then the pc reboots. It's extremely rare but only happens during games from what I recall. Happened in 2009 in Crysis, that threw up a BSOD once or twice, and recently a couple of times in NFS Shift2, no BSOD, just freezes, goes to a black screen and lines of colour, then reboots itself. Event ID 41 kernel power is what is logged. I disabled my cpu overclock the other day and the crashes seem to have gone. However, event viewer shows 2 entries for the same kernel power error late april before I overclocked. So I'm not sure if it was just the overclock or if the overclock just made whatever the problem is more volatile. Could it be audio drivers clashing? My device manager shows AMD High Definition Audio Device, and Realtek High Definition audio. I'm wondering if you think it's worth me disabling or uninstalling the AMD drivers and just leaving my onboard realtek to work?
Btw, RAM seems fine, did memtest86 for 12 hours yesterday. PSU is new and good quality, and GFX is new. So I'm not sure what else could be the problem.
Btw, RAM seems fine, did memtest86 for 12 hours yesterday. PSU is new and good quality, and GFX is new. So I'm not sure what else could be the problem.