Hi guys,
in a nutshell, my problem is that both my desktop PC, and my laptop, have started intermittently losing power out of nowhere, and just shutting themselves down as though someone had been holding in the power button.
Interestingly, this started happening in September for BOTH computers.
Power Kernal 41 63 is a generic error msg that's thrown up when the PC suddenly loses power or is turned off without shutting down. Since September, I have a massive list of about 50 of these instances in the W10 event viewer for both computers. I don't believe it's the PSU as both have extremely expensive and high quality PSUs that were bought and installed less than a year ago. Also, one is used at home, and the other used at work or university, which rules out that it may have been a power surge or something that happened at the same time to the entire house. The laptop is never used or charged at home.
I've been searching the net for other people that have had similar issues, and there are plenty. Some people suggest it's a driver issue from upgrading W10 to W10 anniversary and not doing a clean install, though there's not a single thread ANYWHERE with a definitive answer as to what the problem actually is, and of course, Microsoft, not knowing their arse from their elbow, also have nothing of use to contribute to the discussion.
I believe that in the case of my desktop at least, the issue definitely does have to do with the anniversary update, as the first instance of this error was on the 27th of September. The 27th of September was also the release of Forza Horizon 3, which required the anniversary update to run. I went from vanilla W10 to W10 anniversary on that very day, and since then the power downs have been frequent. This is a little too much of a coincidence, and other people as I mentioned above, have stated that similar things started happening when they upgraded to anniversary.
As to when my laptop was updated to the anniversary edition, I honestly don't know, as the laptop is set to update automatically. It did however update before my desktop did.
Honestly though, I have no idea what's going, and as a YouTuber, I have a crap ton of stuff on my OS SSDs that I'd rather not have to erase and reinstall from scratch. The amount of time that's going to take, I simply don't have right now.
In case anyone's wondering what PSUs I'm using, I can't recall off the top of my head for the laptop, but the desktop has a Coolermaster Vanguard Platinum 1200W.
Any help or advice you can shine on the situation would be very much appreciated.
Thanks dudes!
in a nutshell, my problem is that both my desktop PC, and my laptop, have started intermittently losing power out of nowhere, and just shutting themselves down as though someone had been holding in the power button.
Interestingly, this started happening in September for BOTH computers.
Power Kernal 41 63 is a generic error msg that's thrown up when the PC suddenly loses power or is turned off without shutting down. Since September, I have a massive list of about 50 of these instances in the W10 event viewer for both computers. I don't believe it's the PSU as both have extremely expensive and high quality PSUs that were bought and installed less than a year ago. Also, one is used at home, and the other used at work or university, which rules out that it may have been a power surge or something that happened at the same time to the entire house. The laptop is never used or charged at home.
I've been searching the net for other people that have had similar issues, and there are plenty. Some people suggest it's a driver issue from upgrading W10 to W10 anniversary and not doing a clean install, though there's not a single thread ANYWHERE with a definitive answer as to what the problem actually is, and of course, Microsoft, not knowing their arse from their elbow, also have nothing of use to contribute to the discussion.
I believe that in the case of my desktop at least, the issue definitely does have to do with the anniversary update, as the first instance of this error was on the 27th of September. The 27th of September was also the release of Forza Horizon 3, which required the anniversary update to run. I went from vanilla W10 to W10 anniversary on that very day, and since then the power downs have been frequent. This is a little too much of a coincidence, and other people as I mentioned above, have stated that similar things started happening when they upgraded to anniversary.
As to when my laptop was updated to the anniversary edition, I honestly don't know, as the laptop is set to update automatically. It did however update before my desktop did.
Honestly though, I have no idea what's going, and as a YouTuber, I have a crap ton of stuff on my OS SSDs that I'd rather not have to erase and reinstall from scratch. The amount of time that's going to take, I simply don't have right now.
In case anyone's wondering what PSUs I'm using, I can't recall off the top of my head for the laptop, but the desktop has a Coolermaster Vanguard Platinum 1200W.
Any help or advice you can shine on the situation would be very much appreciated.
Thanks dudes!
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