Windows 10 PC restarted -- don't know why

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Fenway16

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I was online this a.m. and all of a sudden a window came up on the desktop saying, "restarting". I checked my updates file and nothing had been updated by windows. Where do I look to find out what was going on. Like what was updated that required a restart? Thanks.
 
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Are these complete loss of power restarts? Temperature issues very rarely cause reboots, usually suffer thermal throttling long before a shut down.

Usually this type of issue is PSU related. I have no idea about the quality of PSU. Please check the health of your PSU.
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Thanks for that information.

How can the original poster figure out what went wrong and how to fix it?


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Dig through event logs more correlate that with log file based on what is found. It's not really a cut and dry set up steps to follow
 
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Interesting that the warranty expired on Nov 18 and this "system failure" occurred on dec 22. Didn't take long.
 
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I ran a diagnostic on the Dell site - everything passed except the web camera - I have it covered with black tape.
 
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Are these complete loss of power restarts? Temperature issues very rarely cause reboots, usually suffer thermal throttling long before a shut down.

Usually this type of issue is PSU related. I have no idea about the quality of PSU. Please check the health of your PSU.
 
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