Random BSoD's, begging for help

cldbl00ded

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Sorry, but I am getting really fed up with this. Lately, my pc has randomly been crashing nonstop. I get Kernel Power Event 41 (63) error codes and BSoD's. I recently got a new motherboard the first week of November, it was fin for a week or so, and then the crashes started. I sent my motherboard in for an RMA, and got a new one back right after Christmas. Needless to say, it has only crashed on me once since, but crashes twice today, this time while playing games.

I've re-installed Windows, completely gutted my computer and cleaned it out. I know this is 99% a hardware problem but I just cant figure out what it is. This is infuriating beyond belief. All parts in my pc other than the mobo are less than 2 years old.

My PSU is an OCZ ZX850W, Motherboard is an ASRock Z77 Extreme6, CPU is i72600k @4.4GHZ, GPUs are 2x Nvidia GTX 680s, 8GB of 1333 RAM (2x4GB), and I have 2 1TB harddrives.

Any help will be incredibly appreciated. I hoe you can understand how irritating this is, knowing something is wrong, but you just can't find what it is.

Here is one of the Kernel Power 41 (63) crash logs:

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 1/16/2014 5:44:48 PM
Event ID: 41
Task Category: (63)
Level: Critical
Keywords: (2)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: Alex-PC
Description:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-01-16T22:44:48.612014300Z" />
<EventRecordID>12068</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Alex-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
 
How old is the PSU? BSOD are usually the memory, HDD, GPU, motherboard, or failing PSU.

What are your temperatures like when you use your computer? Talking about CPU and GPU temps.

Try having just 1 stick of RAM in at a time, and try the different slots with each stick. Run memtestx86 also. Then run a HDD check on your boot drive. Then run a stress test of your CPU individually, GPU individually, then both together. If they pass individually but not together, it's most likely a power supply.

Try all of this and let me know!
 

jeremyp79

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I would try another psu, 2 680's can use upwards of 500watts, and with the overclock to your cpu using up to 150 watts Thats 650+, without taking into account whether the cards are oc'd, or any other items in your system. With a little aging, being pushed fairly hard, the PSU could be getting weaker.
 


That PSU can supply 850w with 70amps on a single strong rail, and is a quality PSU, so I doubt that's what it is unless it's pretty old lol
 

cldbl00ded

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My motherboard is a few weeks old, one of my 680s is almost a year old, and all the other parts are almost 2 years old.
Temperatures are fine.
I'll try memtest, and see what happens, other than that, I've done pretty much everything else everyone is suggesting

 

cldbl00ded

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Can't be. I've had both cards in since I got them and have never had any problems whatsoever