[SOLVED] PC Randomly Power Cycles

[Ethan_E]

Around 2 months ago I started running into an issue where randomly, without a BSOD, my PC power cycles. I've since narrowed it down to it only happening when I'm not actually using it, but there's no way of telling when it will happen. Sometimes within 30 seconds of not moving my mouse it will happen, other times I can not use it for hours and come back to it with nothing wrong. The only thing that I see in event viewer is a critical event telling me that there was an unexpected shutdown but no further information.

So far I've tried:

• Cleaning out the PC both physically as well as getting rid of programs I don't use
• Reseated and swapped DIMMs of my RAM
• Reseated my GPU and WiFi card
• Checked connections from the PSU to other components
• Reinstalled my graphics driver

I'm currently living in a college dorm so I'm severely limited in terms of the tools I have at my disposal, but I need to get this fixed because I've recently lost progress on a paper which I really don't want to happen again.

 

[Ethan_E]

One thing I forgot to mention is that while I was cleaning out the PC I reset the CMOS as well.

 

[userg6]

Same here. About a month ago my PC started to power cycle randomly without BSOD; sometimes when gaming, sometimes when watching youtube; sometimes when idling.
In my event viewer, it says nothing but "Kernel-Power 41" error

What are your hardware specs?
mine are:
i5 4690k (not OC'd)
AMD 5700
16gb DDR3 Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
Samsung 850 SSD 250GB
Samsung 860 EVO SSD 1TB
WD 1TB
Maybe we share some of the same hardware?

I checked the drivers for my GPU and around the time my problem started a new driver was released, so I just reverted a previous driver and I'm going to try to see what happens.

 

[Ethan_E]

Same here. About a month ago my PC started to power cycle randomly without BSOD; sometimes when gaming, sometimes when watching youtube; sometimes when idling.
In my event viewer, it says nothing but "Kernel-Power 41" error

What are your hardware specs?
mine are:
i5 4690k (not OC'd)
AMD 5700
16gb DDR3 Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
Samsung 850 SSD 250GB
Samsung 860 EVO SSD 1TB
WD 1TB
Maybe we share some of the same hardware?

I checked the drivers for my GPU and around the time my problem started a new driver was released, so I just reverted a previous driver and I'm going to try to see what happens.

I actually ended up fixing the issue by removing my graphics driver with DDU and reinstalling it and ever since then it's been fine. DDU can be found here, hope this helps!