Ketnel Event 141 driver crash
Hello. I need some help identifying the cause of an intermittent GPU crash.
About two weeks ago, while playing World of Warcraft, the game switched from gameplay to a cinematic. Both monitors suddenly went black, the GPU fans ramped up to 100%, and the PC had to be forcibly restarted. After that, I reinstalled the GPU drivers (version 610.88), and everything worked normally.
The exact same thing happened when I launched STALKER 2 for the first time. Both monitors went black again, the GPU fans went to 100%, and the only way to recover was to perform a hard reset. After restarting, STALKER 2 ran normally without any issues.
The same crash also happened once last year while launching Mafia: The Old Country, with exactly the same symptoms. So far, this has happened three times in total.
And today the same thing happened with first lauch Gears of War E-Day. But it only happend onec per game, mostly during the first launch. Only thing i can thing off is that the every time when this happend whas when my was idle for hours.
In Windows Reliability Monitor, I found a LiveKernelEvent 141, as well as two other errors, 1B8 and 1A8. I’m not sure how relevant these are.
The main problem is that I cannot reliably reproduce the crash, so I’m not sure whether the cause is the GPU, the drivers, or possibly the power supply. I don’t believe the motherboard, CPU, or RAM are likely to be responsible.
My system specifications are:
GPU: Palit RTX 5080 GameRock
CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D
RAM: 32 GB DDR5, EXPO enabled at 6000 MHz
Interestingly, after today’s crash, I played STALKER 2 again and then spent the rest of the day playing World of Warcraft without a single problem.
I’m therefore not sure how I can reproduce the issue or determine where exactly to start troubleshooting. My main concern is that the GPU itself might be defective