Hey MMOC Computer forum,
Before you read this post I want to sincerely thank you for taking some time to help me, I'm sincerely appreciative!
It's been a couple of years since I've browsed these forums asking for suggestions for my gaming build, I was successful and am happy to say I've gotten this far on my rig, she's been treating me nice these past couple years!
Let me give you some background on my system, specs, and what I've tried so far to isolate the problem:
i5-750 - 2.67 ghz @ ~3.8 ghz
4 gb gskill DDR 3 1600 mhz ram
Asus P7P55D-E Mobo
ATI HD 5770
Corsair TX 650w PSU
WD Caviar Black 7200 rpm 640 gb HDD
Samsung 7200 rpm 250 gb HDD (from my old system)
Lately while playing League of Legends and the Smite Beta, at random / inconsistent times, for either game -- My system freezes briefly, crashes and I'm shown the BSOD. It only flashes for a few seconds without being able to really read a full line of anything.
When I went to the events viewer there is a critical event shown that has the event ID 41 - Source "Kernel-Power"
While talking with my friend, He believed it to be either my RAM or my PSU. I ran a program called "memtest" to 100% with no errors found.
I then borrowed my dad's multimeter to test my PSU, removed it from my PC and read very consistent (and acceptable) voltages for my 24 pin mobo connector, and all additional peripheral connectors as well.
When updating my friend with my troubleshooting progress, he then said it could be due to any piece of hardware on my machine, from my HDDs giving out, to my GPU or my Mobo...
He suggested I fresh install windows, which I did, and I am still getting the crash. (I installed windows on BOTH HDD's, experienced the BSOD crash on both)
My PC crashed on my older 250 GB HDD while I was trying to download the League of Legends Game, not even while playing or having the system under any real load / stress.
So as far as I know I've ruled out my: PSU/ RAM/ HDD's -- I have no idea how to check if I've fried my MOBO or GPU or what could be the cause of this.
I feel lost =\ Where do I go from here?
Thank you for your time