There's no rhyme or reason to this crash/rebooting. I was working on my laptop with a single Microsoft Edge tab open on the desktop when it rebooted. I don't even see a blue screen of death. It just goes black and restarts. First time it happened when a Steam game was updating. These are the events I see before and after the crash:
Error: Event Log 6008 - The previous system shutdown was unexpected.
Critical: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Error: Event Log 1101 - Audit events have been dropped by the transport. 0
The first time I did not even know when it happened, I was away from the computer with Steam open and came back to the desktop wallpaper. I knew something fishy happened and checked the Event Viewer to see the Event ID 41. I thought it could be something from Windows update and left it. Second time it happened, I updated every single driver I could find and hoped that would fix it (audio drivers, vBIOS etc). This is the third time, and I am pretty nervous about the PC components failing. It has only been a year since I got this PC. Could this happen due to a failing CPU? I just replaced it last year after the i9 13900k failed, I don't know if the second CPU is also failing.
Specs:
MBD: GIGABYTE Z790 UD AX
CPU: i9-13900K
GPU: RTX 4090
RAM: 32GB RAM
Storage: 500GB SSD/1TB SSD/4TB HDD
PSU: EVGA 1300 GT 80 GOLD
BIOS is updated to the latest version with the microcode fix. I updated it as soon as it was available.
GPU drivers and other drivers are all updated to the latest version.
Error: Event Log 6008 - The previous system shutdown was unexpected.
Critical: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Error: Event Log 1101 - Audit events have been dropped by the transport. 0
The first time I did not even know when it happened, I was away from the computer with Steam open and came back to the desktop wallpaper. I knew something fishy happened and checked the Event Viewer to see the Event ID 41. I thought it could be something from Windows update and left it. Second time it happened, I updated every single driver I could find and hoped that would fix it (audio drivers, vBIOS etc). This is the third time, and I am pretty nervous about the PC components failing. It has only been a year since I got this PC. Could this happen due to a failing CPU? I just replaced it last year after the i9 13900k failed, I don't know if the second CPU is also failing.
Specs:
MBD: GIGABYTE Z790 UD AX
CPU: i9-13900K
GPU: RTX 4090
RAM: 32GB RAM
Storage: 500GB SSD/1TB SSD/4TB HDD
PSU: EVGA 1300 GT 80 GOLD
BIOS is updated to the latest version with the microcode fix. I updated it as soon as it was available.
GPU drivers and other drivers are all updated to the latest version.