BSOD event log displays critical kernel error 41

Whooooooooo. Express Gate?

I'll see if someone else want's to look at this.

My 2 cents bquig mate I would be taking as look at the PSU and run this PSU - Jump Start

Check all leads and sockets for reference there is this Voltage Rails - Power Supply 101: A Reference Of Specifications

Specifically look at pin 8 (grey cable) on the 24 pin plug if it is dropping out then the PSU may be gong belly up.

bquig said:

Hi Icite I will gladly try your suggestion. But I have a few questions.

What exactly am I doing when I jump the PSU (what am I looking for?).

And how will that help me solve my problem.

Im now getting BSOD everyday, and I cant use my computer for work because its so unstable.
Thanks bQuig

The right volts on the different leads and sockets as per that second link. The volts have to be within 0.5% of the required volts ie 11.6v and 12.4V for the 12v rail. anything higher or lower is no good for the operation of the machine or it stability.

I read all of the links you sent. I found the part near the end interesting when it referenced a problem starting after a power failure. I was having that problem when my drive was set to IDE: after I would have a BSOD the boot would display the "os not found reboot or press the any key.." or something similar. If I tried ctrl+alt+delete the message would appear again, and similarly with the reset. I would have to press the power button to shut it off then turn it on. Not so much lately it will start right back up now.

I was using HWinfo to monitor the power levels, as per carwize's instruction, and they seemed pretty stable.

Regarding the process of the first link you sent me "test PSU". Is that something similar to HWinfo, or is that something I should do with my voltmeter. I guess I'm still not sure what I am supposed to do throughout the process or what it does by jumping the pins. You suggested I take a look at P8-1, should I be inspecting it physically?

Regarding the BSOD's they seem to come when I am doing a resource intensive task, like photoshop, or using Visual studio, or Chrome. It happens most frequently with chrome as that is what I use it for mostly, streaming a video, using google talk, checking email, etc..Often I may have a couple dozen tabs spaced throughout several windows.

For example, this morning I had CNN streaming on one monitor and I had an incoming call on google voice, so I muted the video, and answered the call. I was talking for approx 10 mins when there was some intermittent disturbance on the call, and windows desktop manager failed, then the call continued while desktop recovered, then chrome became unresponsive and when I tried to kill it, BSOD. It usually happens that I can "feel" it is about to BSOD, because the computer will start to hang and/or be temporarily unresponsive for a couple seconds, then resume normally, which gives me a small window to try to save whatever i'm working on, before BSOD event.

I was curious about the rescources chrome uses and so I used rescource monitor to examine chrome and it seems to be using roughly half of my available physical memory:

Thanks for reading