The dreaded kernel power 41 issue

Sounds like you have a horribly difficult to find error! There could be a bit of metal or something on the motherboard, when you have it out of the case give everything a good shake, if you are taking the cooler off of course.
 
Similar issue with my Formula II (780i), cured completely by flashing the latest BIOS. Are you guys on the latest?
 
Ok so heres what i did.

I took the entire machine to bits utterly.

Everything came out and got air dusted and also hoovered. I then spent 3 hours putting it all back very carefully (i even redid the standoffs to make sure) and I am typing this back on that pc.

I bought a new I/O sheild (the one for this board fits really badly anyway and is a pig to fit, but I spent 30 mins checking no metal was in ports and was properly resting inside etc.

Now its a waiting game. I've chucked a load of cash at this and I'm just hoping its gone.. if not I'm prepared to throw more money at this, but that will then mean I've replaced my pc.. I'm the type of dude who will then take it into the garage on a wooden bench and tinker until its fixed .... its just the way I roll.. any more suggestions tho ? keep em comming.

Also changed my mx-2 paste for mx-4.. hey its probably going to make 0 difference buts lets see
 
Before I do that a last ditch attempt will be to do what idleman suggested and I'll buy an ssd for boot speed goodness and see if theres weridness with my boot drive.
 
Airflow is great I have an antec 900 II which is a bit like a wind tunnel so thats two 120mm in one 120mm side , one 200mm top fan , a 120mm exhaust fan and whatever the corsair chucks out.
 
I get this error on start-up.
New build (windows 8) with Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe, 3770K, M$ 256GB SSD etc.
In my case I think this is a Microsoft bug that they can't be bothered fixing.

I mean, if a company can't even get the stats right in FreeCell, what hope do we have when they release a new operating system.
 
its not so much the error I am worried about that's a generic error code for when you loose power press reset and you'll get the same thing, its more the machine is rebooting when up, imagine if for example you were writing to the partition table when it rebooted.. that's gonna hurt. I have yet to run linux for any length of time to see if it happens, I will download a live linux and try it i think.
 
Have you tried reflashing the BIOS, even though it's the same version? If not, try it and clear the BIOS before and after flashing this way:- Load BIOS defaults from BIOS, power off, press power button to discharge, use jumper to clear BIOS, leave jumper to clear BIOS for about a minute, reconnect power, enter BIOS and load BIOS defaults again.

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You have an Asus board, as do I.
Have you checked your fan speeds?
I could not get my PC to start, and found that my fan was running at 598rpm and the bios has a setting for minimum fan speed of 600rpm, so it would not boot.
Is it possible that one your fans is dropping below the minimum fan speed on occasion?
 
Socrates470BC said:
You have an Asus board, as do I.
Have you checked your fan speeds?
I could not get my PC to start, and found that my fan was running at 598rpm and the bios has a setting for minimum fan speed of 600rpm, so it would not boot.
Is it possible that one your fans is dropping below the minimum fan speed on occasion?
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Most of my fans are running not off the mobo, however my cpu fan is running at 2.5k and my chassis fan at 1700k
 
darael said:
Have you tried reflashing the BIOS, even though it's the same version? If not, try it and clear the BIOS before and after flashing this way:- Load BIOS defaults from BIOS, power off, press power button to discharge, use jumper to clear BIOS, leave jumper to clear BIOS for about a minute, reconnect power, enter BIOS and load BIOS defaults again.

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Not sure what this would achieve other than putting the same bios back on.
 
Ok so today when I was at work and the computer was utterly idle, it rebooted... odd its never under load.. I also noted that the LCD poster from asus was stuck on error code RESERVED and thats not even in the manual.. I suspect faulty motherboard, odd it functions normally most of the time..

Anyhow I've reflashed the bios now and am running with setup defaults... beginning to loose my rag with this issue now, I was eyeing up some ivy bridge kit.. haha
 
That is a godawful mobo. I have the same motherboard and it has freezing and lockups issues and all sorts of problems. It's a horrible motherboard and you will find many pages with people complaining about it through a google search.
 
Idle temps of NB? Check in BIOS or use something like Everest. They do run hot on older Asus boards.

The system automatically restarts if anything gets too hot, worth checking under hardware monitoring in the BIOS.

I'd also disconnect the front panel headers completely and turn the system on either by shorting or use the power button on the board (not sure if it has one, can't be bothered googling)

Another thing to try is reverting to an older BIOS revision (doubtful, but were getting desperate)

Finally, have you checked your HDD for errors! Sea tools is good for this, short test takes 2 minutes and is very good. Crystal disk is also good.

I've been in many a situation and I feel your pain, I'm also one for not letting it beat me!
 
Buchanan0204 The scary thing was I did try seatools and basically it bombed whilst checking (crashed) I'll try running crystal disk.

For those interested a bios flash didn't solve it. I have removed 4gb of ram also and put the higher voltage ram back at what it should be.. it never gave an error in memtest ever but hmm just checking


idletemps by Krystan, on Flickr

As for seatools, this is what I get everytime i try to run that


2012-12-04 01.45.03 by Krystan, on Flickr

Quick update it appears the 2.0 gui for seatools has issues the dos version (the text based one) works fine.

Both drives pass a quick test allthough they do warn they have both been overtemp, one at 84 and one at 124... not sure whether to believe that. Especially as crystal disk info says that they are operating at 18 degrees and 24 respectively

Will do a long test a bit later, need the pc to rdp into work right now.
 
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Don't shoot me but I have yet to try a clean installation of windows (major hasstle) but I will try running linux on a live cd tomorrow and see if that causes reboots, If they disappear, it could well be some gremlin in windows causing it I suppose.
 
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