Windows 10: BSOD Random Crashes "Kernel-Power"

Hello,My computer has been frequently blue screening and black-screening as of the past few months and it appears to happen for no apparent reason.My system specifications are below:ASUSTeK TUF GAMING X570-PLUSAMD Ryzen 9 3900X32 GB DDR4 G.SKILL 3600MHzNvidia RTX 3080Seagate BarraCuda Q5 1TB SSDUpon checking the event viewer, I found the following events that occurred at about the time my computer turned off and bluescreened:Level: Critical; Source: Kernel-Power- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">- <System> <Provide

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Random Kernel-Power 41 BSODs

Hello,

Since late January 2020, my computer has suffered from about 50 blue screens, all from the error Kernel-Power 41 (63). The crash can occur at any time. It has happened within a minute of startup, or several hours into a gaming session (which is what the
computer is primarily used for).

The error message on the BSOD screen varies regularly. I've had:

• Kernel Data Inpage Error
• Service System Exception
• Unexpected Store Exception

I have attempted the following troubleshooting methods:

Windows
(Windows10 home
64bit)

• Ran
  sfc/scannow
  
• Ran
  following DISM tests:
  
  • Dism
    /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
    
  • Dism
    /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
    
  • Dism
    /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
    
• Ran
  Windows Defender Quick Scan
  

Memory/RAM
(Corsair Vengeance
LPX DDR4 3000MHz 16GB)

• Ran
  Windows Memory Diagnostics (x2)
  
  • No
    issues found
    
• Ran
  Memtest86 (2 passes)
  
  • No
    issues found
    

GPU/Video
Card (Radeon
R9 290X)

• Reinstalled
  drivers/AMD Software (20.4.1)
  
  • Issue
    persists
    
• Rolled-back
  drivers to 20.2.2 (never had issues with these)
  
  • Issue
    persists
    
• Temperatures
  never above 75C
  
• Reseated
  card
  

Motherboard

• No
  visual defects (blown/swollen capacitors etc)
  
• CPU
  never exceeds 75C
  

Device
Manager

• All
  drivers updated
  

Storage
(WD Blue SN550
NVMe SSD)

• Ran
  manufacturer’s diagnostic test
  
  • No
    issues found
    
  • Firmware
    up to date.
    
• Ran
  CHKDSK /f /r (x2)
  
  • Did
    find areas to repair but issue persists (both occasions)
    

Power
Supply

• Originally
  believed to be the cause of the issue
  
• Replaced
  with brand new Corsair TX650M
  

I have uninstalled all software/programs that were installed just prior to the start of the crashes. The last physical component to be installed in the PC was the NVMe drive in December 2019. Nothing else has been touched.

Here are the event properties from some of the crashes. Note they are not the same (although there have been crashes
with the same properties).

Also, Windows seems unable to write dump files for crashes. I have the settings set up exactly as shown below, but nothing is ever present in C:\Windows\minidump after a crash. The same is true if I set it as a Kernel memory dump.





Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.

 

Kernel check error BSOD


I don't believe that is the correct one, but from another thread.
There are a few reasons

1. I have just analysed the dumps from that zip in another thread,
2. The system is according to the zip an Alienware laptop, according to your system specs you have a Lenovo system
3. The first and second zip files have different names, the second is identical to the zip from the other thread.

The other thread: Random kernel security check crashes, no pattern - Windows 10 Forums