Windows 7 - Windows Randomly Reboots

Hi, First may I apologise if the answer has already been posted to this. I'm pretty much illiterate when it comes to solving issues involving Windows.

My PC is rebooting constantly at random times. I can not link any specific action to when this happens. It even happens when the PC is idle.

My first thought was overheating do I have cleaned all the dudt from the heatsink, fan etc. But the issue still occurs.

I have checked Event manager & there are many critical errors there, all showing something to do with Kernel 41 error.

I've followed the link to the MS site and read about this but I do not understand it I am afraid.

I'd be thankful for any help.

Happy to help can you




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Thanks for the prompt reply. I've done the above. The minidump folder is empty.

Hi,

just wondering if anyone could help any further.

did you ensure they were enabled? have you had a bsod since enabling it?

Yes enable is in place. I'm not getting a bsod. I'm an old windows 95 etc, etc user so when I read bsod I obviously refer to the actual blue screen from those days. I'm not actually getting any blue screen crashes.

I am literally getting random reboots. My machine just reboots itself.

Not sure if the information below will help. It is from the critical error in my Event Viewer.

<Event xmlns="Error">
- <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="2011-07-09T23:01:05.312500000Z" />

<EventRecordID>4448670</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

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

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>Resurrected</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>

Anyone have any ideas please?

Sorry about the slow reply but I was forced offline

event id 41 means there was a problem coming in the last sleep cycle. For reading about it and possible fixes go here. Windows Kernel event ID 41 error in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2: “The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first”

ZigZag,

Once again thanks for the reply. I did read the above but I just got lost when it talked about using bugcheckcode & then using Programmer & HEX codes.

Sorry to sound so stupid but it all just went over my head.