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Occasional Kernel 41 crashes but always in memory disgnostic
I've been running Win 7 Ultimate Retail happily for over a year on this PC.
I started getting occasional crashes a few weeks ago, no BSOD just a complete and sudden restart. It started getting more and more frequent until it always crashed during startup.
BUT, it worked fine in safe mode - no crashes even after running for days.
I tried removing various drivers etc. to no avail so I decided to give up and do a clean install.
While doing this I decided I might as well upgrade the 256gb HD to a 1Tb drive which I did.
All went well but checking the system out after the install I found that it crashed during Windows Memory Diagnostic. It's fine with Memtest86.
I dug around the web and found references to a graphic error (it's on the mobo) so I put in a HD5450 (I now have a DVI connection to the monitor) and changed the BIOS etc.
Still the crash in Memdiag, and one apparently random crash too. More digging and I see that the original power supply at 305W is a bit weak so I've put in a GX 550W supply.
Still the crash in Memdiag and another in the middle of the night while it was just switched on with no programs running.
The event viewer
shows
-System
-Provider[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}
EventID41Version2Level1Task63Opcode0Keywords0x8000000000000002-TimeCreated[ SystemTime] 2011-09-28T00:09:06.869223500Z
EventRecordID9328Correlation-Execution[ ProcessID] 4[ ThreadID] 8
ChannelSystemComputerGM_DELL_APR06-Security[ UserID] S-1-5-18
-EventData
BugcheckCode0BugcheckParameter10x0BugcheckParameter20x0BugcheckParameter30x0BugcheckParameter40x0SleepInProgressfalsePowerButtonTimestamp0
It's a Dell Dimension 5150 2.8GHz with 3Gb memory.
I'll be grateful for any ideas. TIA.