Friend's Win10 machine keeps crashing -- several times a day, while she
was working with it. Desktop computer, no heat problem. Bug check
0x7e. Googling has resulted in circular references,
incomprehensibility, and a couple of firefox/linux crashes at the
microsoft site, along with one possibility that the cause is a faulty
USB driver -- that just happened to be one guy's problem, but I saw
others for the 0x7e thing. The Event Viewer produced the following. Can
anybody translate this into actual information?

the Event Viewer lists 9 events from 10/8/2016 9:21:03pm thru 11/25/2016
7:29:37pm

Level: Critical
Source: Kernel-Power
EventID: 41
Task Category: (63)
---------
details:
Event 41, Kernel-Power
(Friendly View)
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}
EventID 41
Version 4
Level 1
Task 63
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000400000000002
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2016-11-28T00:11:23.707890000Z
EventRecordID 67204
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8
Channel System
Computer name
- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-18
- EventData
BugcheckCode 126
BugcheckParameter1 0xffffffffc0000005
BugcheckParameter2 0xfffff80139e515b0
BugcheckParameter3 0xffffa3819bfee378
BugcheckParameter4 0xffffa3819bfedba0
SleepInProgress 0
PowerButtonTimestamp 0
BootAppStatus 0
Checkpoint 0
ConnectedStandbyInProgress false
SystemSleepTransitionsToOn 1
CsEntryScenarioInstanceId 0

it also has Details in XML View

- Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
- System
Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power"
Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" /
EventID41/EventID
Version4/Version
Level1/Level
Task63/Task
Opcode0/Opcode
Keywords0x8000400000000002/Keywords
TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-11-28T00:11:23.707890000Z" /
EventRecordID67204/EventRecordID
Correlation /
Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" /
ChannelSystem/Channel
ComputerBEWsDesktop64/Computer
Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /
/System
- EventData
Data Name="BugcheckCode"126/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter1"0xffffffffc0000005/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter2"0xfffff80139e515b0/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter3"0xffffa3819bfee378/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter4"0xffffa3819bfedba0/Data
Data Name="SleepInProgress"0/Data
Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp"0/Data
Data Name="BootAppStatus"0/Data
Data Name="Checkpoint"0/Data
Data Name="ConnectedStandbyInProgress"false/Data
Data Name="SystemSleepTransitionsToOn"1/Data
Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceId"0/Data
/EventData
/Event



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Cheers, Bev
"To turn is to admit defeat." -- Hugh Grierson