Today, same like yesterday, my laptop rebooted instantly while I was browsing (Chrome), editing a txt file in Notepad and had mIRC open. I looked in the system event viewer and was able to find a message that says: Code: The previous system shutdown at 14:48:25 on 3-1-2014 was unexpected. I am not sure how the other messages in the event viewer relate to this improper shutdown, or how to troubleshoot the problem. But I could post them here if I know how I can do that in a neat fashion... Please help me find the reason for my PC rebooting so unexpectedly.
Recently this started with me, i will be investigating by reformatting my pc and installing one by one driver as its 99% caused by an incompatible driver.. Steps: 1- reformat 2- reinstall one by driver by another, after each installation open cmd as admin and type verifier.exe /all and restart if no problem continue.
@gofbored @jazzar Which OS do you use.? Windows 8 or 8.1.? What kind & model of computers do you use.? More information so some body might help.
Let me guess, you were about to watch or busy watching a flash video ? Flash player, 8.1 and AMD = PC Reset or BSOD
Normally that dump files are located at: Code: %SystemRoot%MEMORY.DMP But be aware that not every time a dump files is created! Also be aware that those dump files (if created) could be quite huge up to several GB!!
In addition to it being a driver issue, don't overlook an actual hardware failure - hard drive, memory, video card, stuck or blocked fan resulting in over heating. Whoops, I see now it is a laptop, probably not a video card problem. hard drive - chkdsk, sfc /scannow memory - memtest86 over heating - SpeedFan Set the crash dump file to "small" (or whatever they call it). As pisthai said, full dump file is huge. Use Bluescreen Viewer to examine.
Windows 8 does run hotter than win7 because it does more at once with multithreading. Reboots are often a power issue or an overheating cpu issue.