PC randomly switches off

[|tera|]

Sorry to hijack the thread but has anyone seen this "a clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor" as a BSOD message before. I was just wondering what could be the cause of this. I am also getting an event ID 41 error in my event viewer which relates to the kernel power. Any help would be much appreciated. I have just replaced all my components in my pc so it's not faulty anything but may have to do with the cpu voltage or something otherwise conflicting drivers maybe.

Best advice I have is double check your BIOS settings. Go into Device Manager and Uninstall (right click and uninstall) each CPU (cores this is) on your system and reboot. It will be reinstalled.

An easier way around this would be to use Device Remover: http://www.pro-it-education.de/software/deviceremover/
Set it to View> Show Hidden/Detached Devices. Remove everything except any Printers, Scanners etc. that you know you will use. The rest is crap, so remove the lot. Reboot and test again.

 

[MickZA]

Interesting. I suspect it must be power supply, as in my Prime95 test, I also tortured the RAM modules and I didn't get any errors.

Could also be AC wall power, it's air conditioner season in your part of the world ATM. Have you tried using a UPS?.

 

[PostmanPot]

Firstly Google disable auto restart (if that's what it's doing) and force blue screen of death. Google the error code(s).

I'd say PSU or RAM. Test RAM by running one stick at a time.

 

[snail]

Quick question,are you using an original windows CD, or are you using a pirated version, wait....don't answer that incriminating question. I have had friends that bring there pc around and it does the same thing, asked him for his windows cd, gave me a pirated copy, loaded a fresh install and loaded antimalware software only to find pre installed malware on his version of windows (the risk you take with pirated stuff). Needless to say his problem stopped after that. And yes, I did a fresh install twice, first time not running any antimalware programs hence I ruled it as malware