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FREEZE: Event ID 41: Kernel Power
Hi Guys,first of all its great that this forum exists!
I have a problem with my 2yeard old HP pavillion dv966ea. I recently upgraded to windows 7 , and everythingh was good for about 2weeks, now it suddenly crashes and I get the same Kernel Power critical error as some other people mentioned. It crashes randomly, sometimes not in hours...but always when I'm starting a certain 3D client poker software, it freezes and I have to use the power button...after the restart even the HP logo at boot up is sometimes in colours. the only way to get back to normal is to run in safe mode and than restart. that normally seems to do it.
I did a lot of research on that, reading all the related articles on this site as well, so here is what I tried so far.
Clean installed w7 (7600)
tried with or without updates
tried all the drivers on HP website and experimented with Nvidia drivers
updated realtek audio drivers
it would be great to know, if this is software or hardware related.(don't have warranty anymore) I hope anyone can help me with that problem.
btw. computer never crashes with the pre-installed vga-driver, but I can't run the poker software with it. My guess is overheating...but I have no idea what or why?
Thank You and
Best regards
cristoph