Hello guys,
I've been suffering a rather weird issue with my newly acquired computer...
Everytime I play games such as BF3 or Crysis3, my computer just restarts after a while, sometimes 10 minutes into the game, other times i can be playing for an hour...
It also happens on less demanding games such as Cities in Motion 2
Everytime the PC restarts I tend to check the Event viewer in Windows 7 and I get the following error:
Critical: Kernel-Power
Event ID: 41
Event category: 63
I have run all kinds of stress tests:
Prime95 + Furmark for about 30 minutes and no crashes or system stability issues.
OCCT PSU test, OCCT CPU test....
When using those stress tests, the computer does not restart itself. If It actually was a problem with the PSU, wouldn't it cause the PC to restart regardless of what's eating the power rather than only when playing games?
I have read in some forums that it could be related to a conflict between Realtek HD audio drivers and Nvidia audio drivers. But i tried disabling Nvidia audio device and it's still happening.
Here are my specs:
Windows 7 SP1
Core i5 3570K (not OC'ed)
Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (latest BIOS installed)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2Gb
NOX Urano 600W PSU
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600
4 HDD's
What should I do?? This is driving me crazy. I am reluctant to change the PSU cause i believe it is enough power for the rig and the PSU itself is good.
Thanks in advance!
I've been suffering a rather weird issue with my newly acquired computer...
Everytime I play games such as BF3 or Crysis3, my computer just restarts after a while, sometimes 10 minutes into the game, other times i can be playing for an hour...
It also happens on less demanding games such as Cities in Motion 2
Everytime the PC restarts I tend to check the Event viewer in Windows 7 and I get the following error:
Critical: Kernel-Power
Event ID: 41
Event category: 63
I have run all kinds of stress tests:
Prime95 + Furmark for about 30 minutes and no crashes or system stability issues.
OCCT PSU test, OCCT CPU test....
When using those stress tests, the computer does not restart itself. If It actually was a problem with the PSU, wouldn't it cause the PC to restart regardless of what's eating the power rather than only when playing games?
I have read in some forums that it could be related to a conflict between Realtek HD audio drivers and Nvidia audio drivers. But i tried disabling Nvidia audio device and it's still happening.
Here are my specs:
Windows 7 SP1
Core i5 3570K (not OC'ed)
Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (latest BIOS installed)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2Gb
NOX Urano 600W PSU
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600
4 HDD's
What should I do?? This is driving me crazy. I am reluctant to change the PSU cause i believe it is enough power for the rig and the PSU itself is good.
Thanks in advance!