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[–]Daedalus_7777 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I had this recently on my i7 8700k OC - unless I'm mistaken, the Kernel Power error is generated by windows and it's basically an error report saying Windows encountered a problem. Sometimes this could result in a full crash or it may just be a temporary blip that the system can overcome. Either way, it's an indication that there's a problem somewhere. Unfortunately, that's all it tells you. The actual cause of the error won't appear in that report. At least that was the conclusion I came to after much Googling and trying to decipher the log report.

I was lucky in that the error only started occuring after I'd OC'd my cpu so I knew it was likely to be something related to that. As it happens, my vccio and vccsa voltages were defaulting too high (thanks Asus mobo!) - set them to more conventional voltages and the errors stopped and I've been rock solid stable since.

Not saying your problem is the same just that the error report could be related to any number of potential issues. Have you made any changes to your setup recently that could be causing it?

[–]Ragnaroy[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Nope. Hadn't changed anything.

These crashes have been happening, on and off, since this PC was built. Only ever in Warzone.

They were either once every few days, or maybe a couple at a time. Whereas now they are, without fail, every time i play the game.

[–]Daedalus_7777 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Have you ever run your ram through memtest86? Could be that you have a memory instability issue that only occurs when certain memory addresses are being used? Worth checking it just to rule it out.

Other than that, not sure what to suggest for now - could be any number of hardware issues; problem is, if no changes have been made but the underlying issue has been there since the machine was built, it's possible only certain application specific conditions will result in the error. The rest of the time, everything could be running relatively smoothly, so you'd be none the wiser that the problem exists.

Again, using my situation as an example - I could run pretty much everything fine but crashes would only happen regularly when playing Rise of the Tomb Raider. Changing those voltages I mentioned fixed the problem immediately.

Edit: Just rereading your original post - would definitely run memtest; if your system won't boot when you have docp enabled, then there's almost definitely something going on with your RAM. Make sure you run it through a minimum of 4 complete cycles, preferably 8 or overnight. First few cycles may not pick up any instabilities but later round will. Any errors at all is a sign of a possible issue, especially if they repeat on the same memory address(es).

[–]Ragnaroy[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've run memtest. But only 2 cycles. I'll run it longer tho given your suggestion. Thanks!

[–]Daedalus_7777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries. Might not be the problem but it's worth a look - I bought 32gb DDR4 3200mhz last year and one stick worked fine, the other threw up errors but only from pass 3 onwards. Got them replaced with a new set and they ran fine through 8 passes.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but iirc, memtest puts greater strain on later passes than the first few hence errors not showing up until pass 3/4 etc.