event 41 kernel power 0x8000000000000002

I will give that a shot when i get home. Thanks again.

You're welcome. Let us know the results of the hardware checks as you run them. Best of luck tracking it down.

so i did the furmark test the gpu held steady at 85 c, no artifacts but it does stutter a tiny bit on the background. not much just enough to notice that its happening.

i am running the vmst now.

FurMark test sounds good. Look forward to the video memory test results. If you get messages that certain tests were not supported, those can be ignored. Just let us know if it finds errors.

vmst had 0 errors in 21 passes, will run the others tonight when i get home.

Good news! Graphics card should be clean, then. Hopefully we can narrow down the culprit. :)

finished the first test from prime 95, the small fft and it had no errors. ran for about 2 hours.

Should be fine, then. What temperatures were you seeing during the small FFT test? Post back after you have done the rest of the Prime95 tests, and include temperatures during idle and during the tests.

so i finished the prime 95 tests and there were no errors. the cpu temp was about 40c at idle and mid 70c during the tests.

The maximum safest temperature for that processor is 76 C. You may consider checking that you have a good amount of thermal compound spread and have good contact between the processor and heatsink; the heatsink should not budge if you wiggle it with your finger. If you have a good amount of thermal compound spread and in good contact, think about getting a new cooling system with a better fan and heatsink. Remember to follow the ESD safety steps I outlined in post #30 when opening up your system.

Also, if you remove the heatsink from the processor, you will have to clean off the old thermal compound and re-apply new thermal compound to the processor. If you do not currently have thermal compound, do not remove the heatsink until you have purchased a supply of thermal compound.

Thermal Paste and How To Use It