Windows 10: System crashes and reboots at seemingly random times ErrorID 41

Hi, I've been having issues for quite a while now, where once or twice a day my PC will crash and reboot automatically. I have a couple of theories of what could be causing it, but want to dig in as much as I can before spending money on a potential fix. The Critical errors in the event log always say: Event ID: 41Task Category: 63Source: Kernel-PowerDescription: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or&

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Random crashes/reboots - PSU failling?

I'm concluding that's not a software issue but a hardware one, most likely being the PSU the culprit.

• Power supply in my area has always been very inconsistent in summer time, even experiencing several low voltage situations system wide, with surges making my PC to reboot automatically. Despite PSU's got it's own protection methods, exposing it to several days -and years overall- of unstable electric flow could've inflicted some damage on it. PSU is not near top of the line and it has 8 years of continuous usage (Sentey BRP700).

• I did have random, sporadic reboots over time on my system for a while, even while doing basic tasks (watching a YT video). None prove to be catastrophic until the other day.

• Since the "mayor crash" I experienced the other day while playing a game, that rendered my system unable to install AMD Drivers even on a fresh new copy of a clean Windows 10 , I did experience several random reboots using Microsoft Basic Display Adapter performing basic tasks;
  • At the time of the "mayor crash" I had latest AMD drivers installed and they were working just fine and no mayor Windows 10 updates were installed that day.

• Removing video card (AMD R7 265) and replacing it a Geforce GTS 540 for testing purposes also triggered random crashes and system's lock up (different behavior, but same result nonetheless = system crash). Even while using the Geforce the computer suffered TWO system crashes just by clicking on the "refresh" button on TechPowerUp GPU-Z app. Yet, the third, fourth, ... times I clicked refresh, system did not reboot.
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• Weirdly enough FurMark stress on my CPU and the testing video card -Geforce GTS 540 with Nvidia drivers installed- didn't make my system crash. Yet, opening Chrome afterwards triggered a crash.

I can't identify a system crash pattern.
The only pattern is that when I try to install AMD drives for my R7 265 the system does crash. The rest of the reboots are random and not logical based on the system stress at the moment.

Despite inspecting the PSU -and computer in general- for failed capacitors, I really lack the know-how to effectively detect a bad one unless it's very obviously damaged.

Bottom line: I'm purchasing a new PC overall -time to upgrade anyways- and I expect this to solve my issue once and for all.

I really appreciate time invested in trying to help me, guys!

 

EventID 41 Seemingly Driven By WUDFRd.sys

Been having problems with EventID 41 on a Dell 2-in-1. Sent back three times with Dell changing the motherboard twice and battery/internal wiring this last time. Seemingly the system is improved, yet in last two weeks the critical error and shutdown again
happened a number of times. When doing my own research see the issue occurs at the same HH:MM:SS as an EventID 219. Each time the error states:

The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device ACPI\INT3400\2&daba3ff&0.

I do see that the driver wudfrd.sys is in the folder. This same EventID 219 occurs each time the USB Western Digital My Passport SSD is connected. Generally these do not result in an EventID 41 and forced system shutdown.

I called Western Digital which suggested it is a Windows issue. Thank you in advance for the solution.

System: Windows 10 Home

 

all games crash!

ive watch my temps and both the cpu and gpu are within normal ranges. when it freezes it simply freezes the image and stops the sound. i must reboot to get back to windows.