Microsfot-windows-kernel-power event id 41 BSOD need help :(

[scot]

Hello, recently I've been plagued with BSOD while gaming, it started when I upgraded windows 7 to windows 10. With 10 I was able to play for hours but the BSOD would occur randomly almost everytime, startup would take about 30 mintues until I was able to use the desktop and what not if it didn't freeze first, windows update would give an error everytime I wanted to update, a nightmare, so I decided to wipe the whole harddrive and clean install windows 7 again after that all updates were done no problems along with all the drivers, so all was well and decided to start playing again and behold now there are BSOD while playing in less than 5 minutes regardless of the game.... I had 2 BSOD during surfing the internet very random but I can have my pc on the whole day without BSOD :s

 

I'm at a complete loss, I checked the event viewer and when it BSOD there is the "Microsfot-windows-kernel-power event id 41" which according to the internet is related to drivers, psu, ram, overheating.

So I did some tests

 

-Reseted BIOS to default settings.

 

-drivers are all up to date I made sure to update every single one and tried but the BOSD still occured

 

-did the memtest86 and my older sticks of RAM had errors right after the first test so I removed those and tested the 2 newer ones and they passed 5 tests no errors

 

-used intelburntest and tested from standard to maximum and all passed no problems

 

-used intel processor diagnostic tool and passed as well

 

-used furmark and did one hour test with maxumum settings pushing my graphics card to the limit and passed

 

 

 

My specs are: intel core i5-4460 cpu 3.20ghz

 

8GB ram (had 16 GB but had to remove 2 faulty sticks)

 

Asus GTX 970 4GB

 

MOTHERBOARD asus z97-k

 

My pc is custom built by me everything is new apart from the harddrive and PSU, basically the first time I did it but after checking how to do it on youtube doesn't seem anything too dificult, I installed windows 7 and all was fine, only after upgrading to windows 10 this hell started.

 

I can't seem to fix the problem, my hardrive is having some errors with bad blocks, you think it could be the hardrive? I'm in a moment of my life where I can't afford spending money on new parts right now without knowing exactly what the problem is. I'm thinking either the PSU or the harddrive.

[Purr4me]

right click the start menu ,select "command prompt (admin)

cd\ so you are on root.

 

type this out and hit enter-------- sfc/scannow

 

watch for files being found corrupted, if the install was a good one, the data residing on the back up partition should be able to fix the corruption.

 

you are suffering from file corruption on the hard drive partition.

 

exit and reboot. If your lucky, the system will be fully repaired, if not? it won't boot any more.

Edited December 28, 2016 by Purr4me

[scot]

Thank you I tried that and it came with "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log."

I restarted and tried it again after is asked to restart and same thing, you think the harddrive is the problem?

[Purr4me]

yes, the drive is failing, the data gets placed in spots it can not read from.

sorry, you have no choice but to replace the drive.

[scot]

That's actually good news, the drive is old anyway so might as well just replace it, just wanted to make sure what I need to replace, it was either the psu or harddrive now I know thank you very much, I will see if I can change the harddrive and let know if it fixed the problem.

[Purr4me]

your welcome, peace of mind is a good out come too.

 

kitty black.

[scot]

Hello, so just wanted to give an update I changed the hardrive today and after clean install windows 7 and updates e drivers and whatnot I went ahead and play and I played from 18 to 21 no errors :D thank you so much for the help

[Purr4me]

you are welcome