[SOLVED] Desktop rebooted after benchmark test.

ern88

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Ok gang. I built my System in January. You can view my specs. And I bought a MSI RTX 3080 OC on Saturday. I reformatted the drive over the weekend. Been running rock solid. Today I ran Heaven Benchmark. It completed the benchmark. As soon as I exited out of it. My system did a reboot. I looked in the event viewer. And all it said was it was an unexpected reboot. And maybe power related. No BSOD or mini dump file. Any help would be appreciated
 
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Unexplained reboots can be hard/challenging to track down...anything from miniscule RAM errors, software glitches with the app interfacing with Windows, a PSU glitch, etc... (Set WIndows to give/show RAM errors vice simply rebooting when a crash occurs, just in case)

You can start with running a bootable Memtest86 USB flash drive overnight, looping tests, looking for any potential RAM issues.
If the system is rock solid everywhere else, including intensive gaming, I'd suspect/hope for just an odd issue software in cleanly ending/exiting the Heaven Benchmark. (Certainly, a PSU could cause weird symptoms, but, I'd semi-expect that to possibly occur in intensive gaming as well....)
Unexplained reboots can be hard/challenging to track down...anything from miniscule RAM errors, software glitches with the app interfacing with Windows, a PSU glitch, etc... (Set WIndows to give/show RAM errors vice simply rebooting when a crash occurs, just in case)

You can start with running a bootable Memtest86 USB flash drive overnight, looping tests, looking for any potential RAM issues.
If the system is rock solid everywhere else, including intensive gaming, I'd suspect/hope for just an odd issue software in cleanly ending/exiting the Heaven Benchmark. (Certainly, a PSU could cause weird symptoms, but, I'd semi-expect that to possibly occur in intensive gaming as well....)
 
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