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Possible Causes for Kernel-Power Critical Errors
So lately after getting a new computer at work, it had repeated Kernel-Power (Event ID 41, Task Category 63). It was right after I had finished installing all of the newest drivers and applications. I had checked out all sorts of possible causes to this error.
All of these have helped various other people I saw in posts, but it didnt fix my issues.
Different settings that could possibly cause these errors:
- turning off turbo boost or dynamic cpu adjustment (BIOS settings)
- disabling SATA3 (BIOS settings - Most devices arn't SATA3 yet)
- disabling HPET (BIOS setting - high precision event timer)
- disabled ATI /AMD event logger (start/Run/services.msc Find the service and disable it)
- updated drivers (Especially the audio drivers, some older versions of the HD audio can cause crashes)
- disabled ATI RAID Xpert (start/Run/services.msc Find the service and disable it)
- uninstalled ATI HD audio drivers (Right Click My Computer/Properties, click on device manager and uninstall drivers for HD Audio)
- upping the northbridge and ram voltage by 1 or 2 notches (BIOS settings)
- disable Harddrive Sleep and Hibernate (For Desktop users: In Power Options, select High Performance, Goto Advanced options, select Hard disk, and put 0 Minutes)
After trying all of these and nothing working, I ended up finding out it was ZoneAlarm Free Firewall that was causing my Kernel-Power errors. After uninstalling ZA, I never got any more crashes. Though, I found some Hotfixes from Microsoft that resolve this issue (and I can now use ZA with no problems).
I dont need any help with this issue, but rather I am posting for others for "possible" causes to your problem.