Windows 10: Windows 10 Restarting when Idle

For about a week or so my Windows 10 Home PC keeps restarting when I've been idle for about 10 or so minutes. If I periodically move the mouse or type on the keyboard it doesn't restart. The computer will restart even if I'm doing something passively, like watching a full screen video.

At this point I'm out of ideas and not sure what could be the problem. I've tried looking online for solutions for similar problems, but it hasn't really helped resolve the issue I am facing. I have tried the following with no luck:

1. Looked at the Event Viewer for Critical or Error events. The only thing it shows are things related to an unexpected shutdown without any more information (ex: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.)
2. Looked at the Reliability History, but the only thing it shows are events that correspond to the critical errors from point 1.
3. Made sure Windows was updated to the latest version and Windows Update has all the latest updates (currently on version 20H2, build 19042.685).
4. Installed Hardware Monitors to see if the CPU or GPU was overheating. Nothing got above the 50-55 C range before the idling restart occurred.
5. Updated my video card drivers to the latest version.
6. Tried to uninstall and reinstall the latest Bluetooth and USB Drivers.
7. Looked at the Task Scheduler to see if there were any problematic tasks scheduled for when the computer was idle, but didn't see anything.
8. Under the "Startup and Recovery" settings I have disabled the "Automatically restart" option and have enabled the "Automatic memory dump" option, but this hasn't provided any useful debugging information.
9. Scanned all hard drives for disk errors. No errors were found.
10. Ran a Virus Scan, but that didn't find anything. I am in the process of trying to run a full virus scan, but that has sometimes been affected by the random idle restarts due to how long that takes.

Any other suggestions for how to troubleshoot or debug this so I can figure out what the problem could be would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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