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Game crashing

Soldato
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Every now and then, I get a freeze up on screen, a buzzing sound, then the pc reboots. It's extremely rare and only happens during games. Happened in 2009 in Crysis, that threw up a BSOD once or twice, and recently a couple of times in NFS Shift, 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 have gone. But event viewer shows 2 entries for the same kernel power error late april before I overclocked. Could it be audio drivers clashing? My device manager shows AMD High Definition Audio Device, and Realtek High Definition audio. This thread seems to think audio drivers clashing might be a cause for kernel 41.

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f299/solved-kernel-power-41-63-error-434613.html

RAM seems fine, did memtest86 for 12 hours today.
 
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