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September 1, 2014 10:22:25 PM

Okay, this one has me literally stumped. I work for a computer electronics store so I am by no means ignorance to technology.

Here are my specs:
Amd 8350 (8 core proc)
2 gigabyte 680 GPU's in sli
1300 watt power supply
1 ssd
1 hdd
h100 cpu water cooling closed loop
16gb of corsair vengeance ram

Everytime I launch a game it randomly reboots. It gives me a "KERNEL POWER 41" error... I have researched it to no avail. (THERE IS NO BSOD)

Thing I have done to fix it:
Replaced PSU
Replaced CPU
Checked temps ( all ok running 35deg C on proc and <80 deg GPU)
Clean installed Drivers.
Changed bios settings.
Updated sound drivers
Re-did termal compound
Buffed GPU PCIE connections
Checked RAM (removed sticks one by one and still did the same thing.) 4x4 ram allocation

I am stumped and have no idea why I am still getting reboots. Has anyone had similar issues?


PLEASE HELP THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTZ!!!!!

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September 1, 2014 10:32:12 PM

I'd say take it into an expert and have them go through and physically test your components. Might be your mobo, might be something else, I dunno. I haven't had that problem though, no. I'm assuming it happens when you launch any game, and not just one specific game?

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September 1, 2014 10:36:02 PM

Check your audio drivers in device manager. It is likely you have multiple HD audio devices going at once. Disable one, reboot, retry.
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September 2, 2014 1:24:18 AM

I took it to geek squad... about as far as techy goes in my city (been finding out their slightly useless). It happens on only the high end games like battle field, titanfall, etc. However when i play low end games it doesn't crash...

I don't think audio drivers would cause a crash and reboot...i my be wrong and ill have to tinker with it tomorrow!
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September 2, 2014 3:51:32 PM

That can happen if the CPU or GPU are overclocked a bit much and isn't quite stable. That's all I've got :( 
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September 4, 2014 10:07:51 AM

Unfortunately I have lowered ll the components back to stock clocks...thankd for the input though!
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September 4, 2014 10:13:38 AM

Now something interesting happened...on a whim i disabled the anti aliasing in game and was able to start into a match. Although I was in I could not move the mouse or keyboard...

I checked the nvidia drivers and made sure all the anti aliasing was off on the control panel. I tried to do it again with all the audio drivers disabled and got it...then crashed....wdf is wrong lol.
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