[john48]

My Pc keeps shutting down, ie powering off entirely in the middle of a game I am playing, and only when playing the game, but it didn't do it under Vista only windows 7. when I view the event log I get event 41, kernal power. I have a 600w power supply 2 x12v, a 2gig kAMD athlon 64 x2 dual core chip and an Asus engts250 1g graphics card. 2g ram. any ideas?

[evilweeds]

I have the exact same problem. My machine keeps shutting down when i'm playing specific games, not all games. For example it shuts down when i'm playing HAWX, but not when i'm playing FIFA10. I searched the web for some answers, but without any real results.
I'm running win 7 x64, AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core 5000+, 6gigs of RAM, ATI Radeon 2600XT. If anyone thinks they can help .. or need some other specs or error reports, just say. I am really puzzled about this event 41 crap. Please help.

LE : I think i found the problem for that event 41 thing. It seems that my video card was overheating. I mounted a cooler on it and now I'll have to see if it still shuts down. You'd better check the temps too, because mine was pretty serious, 90 degrees celcius on the GPU core, pretty insane i think. Hope this new info helps you too.

[evilweeds]

It worked for me, the problem was the heat. Try to cool down you machine. Hope it works for you too.

Sorry for double post.