i just realized in event log that i have 200 kernal 41 errors for over a year.

Thomas Hinch

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Hi, I was bored the other day and was scrolling through control panel and decided to check my event logs. To my surprise there were 200 some critical events since last year when i got my pc. they were all kernal 41 power errors. The weird thing is that the bugcheck codes were all zeros.

So i searched on the internet and most people that had these errors had random crashes or reboots. The weirder thing is that I have had no restarts or hangups etc. If i hadn't had looked i wouldn't have even known anything could be amiss.

I had changed the power supply half way through the year since I upgraded my video card. So I don't think it could be a psu issue since the errors in the event log continued after I swapped different psus. I also did memcheck on the ram and nothing seemed amiss. The big thing in my mind is that I haven't had any reboots or crashes suddenly occurring daily at all.

Any thoughts or help from anyone would be appreciative. Thank you.


So just to reiterate that it could just be from programs that wanted to shutdown my pc?

this is how it looks in detailed: [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}

EventID 41

Version 3

Level 1

Task 63

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000000002

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2013-03-14T21:14:02.552680000Z

EventRecordID 1675

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8

BugcheckCode 0
BugcheckParameter1 0x0
BugcheckParameter2 0x0
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0x0
SleepInProgress 6
PowerButtonTimestamp 0
BootAppStatus 3221225684

I had this error log sometimes twice a day. But I never had any reboots or bsods or shutdowns. If I hadn't been checking the event log just for "kicks" I wouldn't have known about this error. All the posts on the internet are from people that have their pcs shut off or reboot randomly. I never had that happen so I was just wondering why it would be showing up so much? Thanks again
 
look at the time stamp of the codes. a lot of time there from programs like ccleaner or a backup or dvd burner program that set to shut the pc down after a defrag or scan. some of them if the old and not written to the newer os can force a shutdown and cause those errors in the log but no error on start up.
 

millwright

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I'm pretty sure everyone's event log is full of errors.

That is the first thing, that the "Fake Microsoft Help Guys" have you look at, to convince you your computer is messed up.

Uniformed user, look at those errors and panic, and give them control of their computer.