I have a Windows 8 laptop that I just use whenever I actually need a laptop, which isn't often. As such, it's been a while since I used it last, but it was working fine.
I've just gone to use it today, and as soon as my wallpaper showed up, before the desktop icons had even loaded, after logging in, it rebooted. Did it again the second time. The third time, it managed to last about ten minutes, then rebooted. Since then, it's just been rebooting at random. It reboots if I let it sit on the lock screen. It rebooted when I tried to open Firefox. It rebooted just sitting on the desktop.
It's somewhat difficult to troubleshoot, given it keeps rebooting before I can do much, but I've managed to scour the event viewer and find no trace of any problems other than 'the system shut down unexpectedly' (no kidding!). I've turned off 'automatically restart' in the advanced system settings for a system failure. I've checked, and there's no MEMORY.DMP file. There's never been a BSOD, it just goes straight to a black screen. There's no error message or anything when it boots back up.
Nothing, as far as I know, has changed between the last time I had it functioning perfectly fine, and today. No new software, no new hardware, no nothing.
I've just gone to use it today, and as soon as my wallpaper showed up, before the desktop icons had even loaded, after logging in, it rebooted. Did it again the second time. The third time, it managed to last about ten minutes, then rebooted. Since then, it's just been rebooting at random. It reboots if I let it sit on the lock screen. It rebooted when I tried to open Firefox. It rebooted just sitting on the desktop.
It's somewhat difficult to troubleshoot, given it keeps rebooting before I can do much, but I've managed to scour the event viewer and find no trace of any problems other than 'the system shut down unexpectedly' (no kidding!). I've turned off 'automatically restart' in the advanced system settings for a system failure. I've checked, and there's no MEMORY.DMP file. There's never been a BSOD, it just goes straight to a black screen. There's no error message or anything when it boots back up.
Nothing, as far as I know, has changed between the last time I had it functioning perfectly fine, and today. No new software, no new hardware, no nothing.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop