Display Shutdown Event Tracker? Where is it?

Ah, got it. Didn't realize that. I'm going to disable it then, because what I need is the true WHY it restarts so frequently. If *I* am restarting it on purpose, I don't need to see that.

But this has been an excellent exercise, thanks so much for that!

elaine

I'm not getting a BSOD, or at least from what I can tell. Basically if I go away from my laptop for an extended period, overnight, for example, the next morning it's back at the login screen. This is NOT normal for me, and I don't see anything obvious in the events, but most of those are not easy to interpret. Right now, I just came back after several hours off it and logged in, and the last "error" in the log is this:

The server {2593F8B9-4EAF-457C-B68A-50F6B8EA6B54} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.

I have NO idea what that means nor if it's even a bootable "offense" I logged back in around 6:55 PM my time, but there's nothing obvious in the log before then, and as best as I can tell it may have rebooted around 4:30ish.

Everything seems fine otherwise, it works normally, etc etc. It would even be helpful if it DID throw a BSOD while I was on it, but so far it hasn't.

elaine

I DID poke around the event log some more, and found a "critical" error around 11:00 this morning. It did reboot earlier too, after being away, forgot about that, sorry. There are a number of them too. The error is:

"The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."

It's plugged in 100% of the time, so hopefully it's not that one, but I looked at the other critical ones and here's a typical one that seems to be from "Kernel-Power". Hmm:

BugcheckCode 268435583 BugcheckParameter1 0x8 BugcheckParameter2 0xffffd58114babf50 BugcheckParameter3 0x3ee0d730 BugcheckParameter4 0xfffff8010b6a90c6 SleepInProgress 0 PowerButtonTimestamp 0 BootAppStatus 0 Checkpoint 0 ConnectedStandbyInProgress false SystemSleepTransitionsToOn 0 CsEntryScenarioInstanceId 0 BugcheckInfoFromEFI true CheckpointStatus 0

Oh man, I hope this isn't my battery or something bad!

elaine
who apologizes for being a bit scattered here.

I am NOT getting a BSOD. However, I just ran a Lenovo Diagnostics on the machine, and was surprised to see that the Battery Health Test Failed, the error saying "Battery has lower than expected relative capacity". This ties in with the power thing mentioned earlier, but as noted, it's not on battery, it's plugged in. I don't even know what this means Is not not holding power? It's original to the laptop which is pushing 5 years (and sadly for me, was under warranty for the first four). Does it even USE battery when it's plugged in?

I read somewhere that a "typical" battery life is 2 years. That doesn't sound very good, but again, if it's always out and about, that makes a certain amount of sense. Since mine is rarely unplugged, well, I've gotten 5 years :)

elaine

Thanks to someone in another forum, I believe I have the answer. After a number of months or more, I'd recently started running BOINC again, and until it was mentioned, I never connected that to anything. Here's what was said: "...started running BOINC again. This, by design, works your CPU (and maybe GPU, depending on what project you're running) to its max. It is possible that your laptop is thermally overloading and either the CPU panics and does an immediate power off or something goes wonky and you bluescreen."

I never had a bluescreen as noted, but once I disabled BOINC, I haven't had this problem since. I'm sorry to hear this, tho, given I like the BOINC concept, but not at the expense at my machine! Does anyone know what machine part can cause this kind of issue? Battery? Something else? If it's something replaceable, I'd far rather try that than buy a whole new laptop.

Thanks to all who wrote!

elaine