Windows 10: Windows 10 infrequently randomly rebooting itself with no warning

I've been having issues with my desktop PC Windows 10 randomly restarting itself with no warning since August now. The computer is about 2 and a half years old, and this issue has never occurred before since, nor on any other computers I've owned over the past two decades. The screen will simply go black, and the computer restarts itself back to the lock screen. No blue screen or anything. When I log in, I don't get any indication or warning that Windows was shut down incorrectly, but in event viewer I notice "critical error 41" every time, as well as error 6008. Sadly, there aren't really any other logs preceding the reboot, never mind logs that could point to what the cause is. I've also noticed that it seems to fail to create dump files every time.


This has only happened so far when the computer has been left idle, it hasn't occurred while I've been actively using it. It hasn't happened too frequently, only about 3-4 times since August, but it's happened enough now that I'm starting to get worried there may be something wrong with it, and/or that this may end up happening while I'm in the middle of doing something important.


I've disabled "automatic restart after a system error" a few days ago after the latest random reboot. I've also disabled fast startup. I've downloaded Speccy and Core Temp to check the temperature of the computer, but it never really seems to exceed much more than 65c even during intensive tasks, and is generally around 30-40c when idle or just browsing the web. Unfortunately I'm not too knowledgeable with computers, and I'm not quite sure what else I can do to narrow down this issue, or what other information I should provide that could be useful in resolving this.


If anyone could help, it'd be much appreciated.

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Windows 10 Randomly Restarts Laptop Without Warning

Hi,

There may be several reasons why your laptop reboots by itself randomly. We suggest you to run the Hardware troubleshooter and System File Checker tool to scan for any corruptions that may be causing your system to reboot. Kindly follow the steps to run the
Hardware and Devices troubleshooter:

• Type Troubleshooting in the Search bar and press Enter.
• Click on View All on the left panel.
• This will display the list of troubleshooters which are built-in in the computer. Click on
  Hardware and Devices from the list and you can run the troubleshooter.

To run the System File Checker tool, kindly refer to this article:
Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 freezes randomly

I had already tried turning off fast startup, to no avail.
Will look at the list you provided, thanks. Hard to do when computer freezes on the Windows loading screen though. *Biggrin

I had tried that as well... no result.