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I've been having a similar problem since I installed Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit back in October. For no apparent reason, the screen will go black and the computer reboots itself. This was happening completely randomly, and I was getting completely sick of it and ready to ditch Windows 7. However...

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 I don't think it's been mentioned before so I'll just say that the version of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 which has 'Vista compatible' on the front of the box and also the expansion pack 'Soaked' work on Win 7 32 bit, retail edition.

Device Doctor did find several drivers that it said needed updating, although three of them were IDE and ATA controllers, and a busmaster controller, but I haven't done them yet, as I'm a bit wary. One was my keyboard, which it called a standard ps2 keyboard, but it is a Microsoft keyboard and I...

No, I don't get that screen. Usually when it crashes the monitor goes black and then into sleep mode, but if I'm playing a game I can sometimes still hear sounds. Normally it reboots itself automatically. Sometimes I get a BSOD. I'm sorry if you are still getting your problems with the blue...

Thanks very much for that - I will try Device Doctor and see what happens.

I installed Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit a month ago in place of XP (Home). I had previously checked that everything would be compatible with Win7 before installing it, and it installed with no problems. From the first day, however, I started getting random crashes, often when a picture changed...

Hmm, well I am afraid to say I had a crash again this afternoon. I was playing a game - a free version of Ultima Online. This has never crashed on me before, but today I suddenly had the black screen; I could hear the sounds going on in the background but the system was totally unresponsive, and...

I can't believe that something I said might have actually helped :) I'm absolutely delighted if that really is the solution, but I have to say that when I was getting my original crashes I was frequently just surfing using IE8 - no sounds were active, but this shows my ignorance as maybe that...

ImmolationN, I have been having exactly the same problem as you, critical error Kernel-Power 41, (63). It started about a day after I installed Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit on 25th October. The system would crash randomly several times a day, usually with a black screen, but occasionally with a...

I think my problem is graphics related, because I noticed that I was getting the black screen more often when I was using my Intellipoint mouse scroll wheel (I had made sure the drivers for the mouse were up to date). Anyway, I disabled the scrolling and I didn't get the problem at all for a...

Hans, I am having a very similar problem intermittently. It first started soon after I installed Win 7 ten days ago. I would find the monitor suddenly shutting down into sleep mode while I was using the computer and I could not wake it. Sometimes there would be a BSOD, but mostly not. I cannot...

I am having a similar problem since installing Win 7 Home Premium 32 on Sunday. I find the monitor will randomly go into sleep mode while I am using it and will not wake up, necessitating a reboot. While the screen is black the computer itself still appears to be running. It happened this...