Windows 7: BSOD Windows Kernel power? Out of ideas...

Hi all,

I've been getting random BSOD's on and off for a good 4-5 months now. As I built the computer myself I wanted to do as much as I could myself before requesting help

However i've been unable to find a fix. Firstly the crashes were occuring for the first 3-4 months a minimum of twice a day. Completely random (it could crash within five minutes or after five hours) also the BSOD error messages would be different every time. memory management, bad pool header etc. I lost count of the different one's I saw.

After trawling for answers I took the pc to my local computer store, they carried out a full hardware test twice and it showed no errors. I myself have also carried out a memtest86 for 10 passes with no problems.

However they did say that my old PSU (600w) may underpower the pc, it was also an old one. Thus I purchased a coolermaster GX-750w PSU.

Then for two weeks I had no more BSOD's, there's me thinking it's fixed. However it came back, and for 3 days it crashed again atleast twice a day with no pattern.

Foolish of me, I only just reaslied I had event viewer on the PC, and all the crashes before the PSU replacement and after are as a result of "windows kernel power".

After further googling kernel power BSOD I found a fix which stated that if you have an ATI card it comes with a sound driver that can conflict with the realtek drivers (which I have installed) I disabled the ATI sound driver.

I also removed a stick of 2GB RAM memory, just to try something else. The PC ran again for a week with no problems. I then put the RAM module back into the PC, and a further 2 days passed with no problems, and then it started again, same symptoms yet they are less frequent. Only three have occured in the last 4 days.

I appreciate this message is long, i'm just at my wits end with this computer and want to get all relevent info down

It's also worth noting that in this time I have done a complete clean re-isntall of windows 7 and also updated the bios.

SYSTEM SPECS.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition 3.4 Ghz
ASUS M4A77TD PRO motherboard.
2 X 2 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600mhz RAM
ATI HD 6950 2gb
Samsung HD103SI ATA device Hard drive
TSST corp CDDVDW SH-S223C CD drive

CRASH REPORTS (last 3)

- <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="2011-06-08T10:07:25.360815400Z" />

<EventRecordID>92325</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>James-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>



- <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="2011-06-07T20:36:39.955214800Z" />

<EventRecordID>91462</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>James-PC</Computer>

<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />

</System>


- <EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">30</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>



- <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="2011-06-06T10:47:21.924014700Z" />

<EventRecordID>89385</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>James-PC</Computer>

<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />

</System>


- <EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">30</Data>

<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0xffffffffc0000005</Data>

<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffff80002cf4f60</Data>

<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>

<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0xffffffffffffffff</Data>

<Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>

<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>

</EventData>


</Event>

I appreciate your efforts but all that does little for us.
Please follow these
http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html

Apologies, I am in the process now of uploading those reports.

Files attached.

The performance report helps, was there nothing in the c:\windows\minidump folder?
Those files are the biggest assistance in troubleshooting possible driver/software issues causing this.

I'll upload another one, strange as during the process it say's 3 files copied from mindump?

Did I upload the file wrong? I'll try to to it asap, I have to leave for work in half an hour!

Here's the folder!

Hi,

I've been getting random BSOD's on and off for a good 4-5 months now.

I took the pc to my local computer store, they carried out a full hardware test twice and it showed no errors. I myself have also carried out a memtest86 for 10 passes with no problems.

However they did say that my old PSU (600w) may underpower the pc, it was also an old one. Thus I purchased a coolermaster GX-750w PSU.

Then for two weeks I had no more BSOD's, there's me thinking it's fixed. However it came back.

I have done a complete clean re-isntall of windows 7 and also updated the bios to no avail.

SYSTEM SPECS.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition 3.4 Ghz
ASUS M4A77TD PRO motherboard.
2 X 2 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600mhz RAM
ATI HD 6950 2gb
Samsung HD103SI ATA device Hard drive
TSST corp CDDVDW SH-S223C CD drive