windows 11 PC crashing while gaming on Windows 11, event viewer shows Kernel-Power error 41

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November 21, 2024 in Operating Systems Help & Support

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Posted November 21, 2024

Whenever I play graphically-intensive games my PC will crash with the fans spinning faster and the monitor going black. The PC doesn't actually shut itself off, but it is unusable until I restart it manually with the front panel button. I noticed temps were getting slightly high, but never anything much higher than 70C. I'm thinking it may be a cooling issue or something with the PSU; all the parts were purchased new about a month ago. I tried changing my fan speeds to high. If there is inadequate cooling, what part should I look to replace first? CPU cooler, adding more fans, switching to AIO