kernel-power 41 windows 11

Lee Charles · 24 Aug 2023 at 18:36

Hi Everyone.

Anybody know how to solve this issue please? When in game the PC restarts itself, It's says in event viewer kernel-power 41 critical

My specs are

5800x stock
Gigabyte gaming X X570
16gb teamgroup ram
GTX 1660TI
850 Corsair 80 plus gold PSU
Kraken x63 280mm

Thanks.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 24 Aug 2023 at 19:00

Kernel power 41 simply means an unexpected shutdown occurred, it isn't the fault itself, and doesn't point to the cause.

My guess would be either memory instability, or the CPU not getting enough power under load.
What RAM exactly are you running, and is XMP/DOCP enabled?

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Aug 2023 at 19:41

I got this I have no idea what resolved it, but it went away by itself so may have been an update that fixed it. If it wasn't an update I have done nothing what so ever that I'm aware of that would have fixed it so I was non of the wiser.

No bios changed, no hardware nothing it just doesn't happen now when before it used to happen about 4 times a day.

Lee Charles · 24 Aug 2023 at 20:23

I've been running this setup for over a year with no problems with XMP enabled, I did update my bios 2 weeks ago then it started happening after that, I just looked on the website and there's a newer version already out I've done the update so I'm going to test some games out and let you know.

Thanks.

-Hotplate- · 25 Aug 2023 at 22:40

I have this same error now since reinstalling Win 10. It's crashing once a day at the moment. No idea why. Same hardware has been rock solid since I built it 18 months ago. Only reinstalled Windows because of an issue caused when my 10 year old printer died

dave28 · 25 Aug 2023 at 22:59

Nightmare problem, many people have had this.

I think in my case it was GPU drivers one time and a bad GPU another time.

It was extremely difficult to know what was causing it.

Lee Charles · 8 Sep 2023 at 17:10

After updating my bios to the latest version the problem seems to be sorted. there must have been an issue with the bios I updated to only 1 week before they released this one. I noticed something when the issue started happening soon as my CPU temps hit around 70/75 ish the system would restart. I'm happy now tho that it's been sorted