BaleriontheBlack

a faster way is to install another game,and if that game doesnt black screen reset you,then you can be positive its the game doing it. no need for any hardware checking or long stress inducing testing... just a simple check if other games work,if they do,and skyrim doesnt...you have found the problem.. sure you can try for a few days to twist and tweak your system to try and fix it,but then you might find no other games are then working...and believe me,this game really isnt worth the effort until the modders get thier hands on it and fix it. [but thats a long way away yet,as the gap between CK and game release has a direct effect on the modding,the best mods come from quick CK release,but the longer it takes the more pro modders move on,leaving the amateurs to try it. and if the amateurs start releasing bug ridden mods you`ll find the games going to be more unplayable than release day. which brings me to bethesdas plan with steam to start selling you mods as dlc.[but thats for another day when they try it] the only other PC games I own are much older, such as Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II and Age of Mythology. I can say that they both work fine, but Im guessing because these games aren't that demanding on my PC due to their age that this really doesn't tell me much. I suppose you're right. I could spend hours of my time figuring out how to actually go about troubleshooting this, and then even more time actually doing the troubleshooting. Or I could just wait until the CK comes out and wait until someone creates a fix! Still if anyone else has any other suggestions, or links to any software I should try I'd still really appreciate it. And if you need more information about my PC or what mods I have already just ask. Thanks for all your input guys.

kernel-power just means the pc lost power before a proper shutdown occurred. your issue could be any number of things. i suggest you grab monitoring tools like gpu-z and cpu-z/coretemp and have them keep a log of sensor data while you play. the logs can then be imported into an excel worksheet for you to look at voltages and temperatures. VISTA or W7? What BIT 32 or 64? You are going to get a lot of questions, and I don't think this is the thread to start it. I would create another thread with your problem since this thread is a CTD. Google search your problem with your specs and do some research at some reputable site. My guess, your RAM may be going bad. You are in for some painful troubleshooting...never a fun thing. But "The answers are out there." http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f299/solved-kernel-power-41-63-error-434613.html Im using windows 7 64 bit.. I can definitely list my system specs which I will do once I get home from work if that would help.. but I suppose my other problem is I dont know enough about PC's to troubleshoot .. I dont know any reputable sites (thats why I posted it here) or even where I can get some of these programs.. any links that could be provided to some of these troubleshooting programs would be most helpful! Does anyone think its possible that I downloaded a mod from this site that is causing this issue? I could list some of the mods I have downloaded...

ok guys I have been reading A LOT about this issue. I know some people are going to lose patience and tell me to go back and read a few pages more, but if someone has the patience of a saint please please please take some time to help me with this! All of the sudden, say within the last couple weeks or so, my skyrim has been crashing so hard that it instantly shuts my PC off. When I go into my PC error logs, I see that it has been improperly shut off and it says the issue is kernel-power. I take this to mean that my power supply is insufficient. My question is, why after 225+ hours logged is my power supply all of the sudden insufficient? The only changes I have made to my pc since installing skyrim are updating my video card drivers, and downloading a few minor mods. So I think what my question is, is it possible that I downloaded a mod that is somehow requiring skyrim to use more power than it was before? Can someone with the patience of a saint please help me with this? Maybe direct me to something or somewhere that will help me narrow this down? There are just so many pages to this discussion and Im getting a bit overwhelmed because well honestly Im not the most computer savvy. If someone could help me out I would really appreciate it so much because right now this game is basically unplayable. :(