Solved Computer Randomly Restarts (No BSOD)

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phillpower2 said:
You may be allowed to use Windows 10 and receive updates for a period of 90 days before you must enter a legitimate product key after which you will then be locked out from Windows.

Your updated Speccy url shows that you have not uninstalled Avast as was recommended and we have not been advised of any further restarts, from this point I will ask a more senior member of staff who carries more weight to take a look at your thread.

Good luck.
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There have been many restarts since the last post. It shows Windows defender as disabled and avast being the primary antivirus running instead, which seems fine to me. I'll try get back to you once I have purchased Windows 10.
Thank you
 
I am afraid that because W10 is not activated, it's causing most of the problems you are experiencing. W10 released several updates, most notable the October 2018 and November 2018 updates, which could alleviate your issues but because W10 is not activated you won't be able to receive these updates :(

We await to hear your W10 is activated so we can better assist you. Unfortunately we are at a standstill without a clean install at this point :(
 
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jmarket said:
I am afraid that because W10 is not activated, it's causing most of the problems you are experiencing. W10 released several updates, most notable the October 2018 and November 2018 updates, which could alleviate your issues but because W10 is not activated you won't be able to receive these updates :(

We await to hear your W10 is activated so we can better assist you. Unfortunately we are at a standstill without a clean install at this point :(
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Understood, sorry about this. I'll try find the time in the next few days, but if not it's going to have to be after Christmas or early January. Once again, sorry.
 
vger said:
Any updates for us?
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Sorry I'm still away. I'll be back in time for new year.
The few days before I left I barely had any problems at all if that helps at all, all I was doing was file transfering between the pc and a device.
 
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I'll tag @phillpower2 but in the meantime, can you grab some logs?

Please download the Sysnative BSOD Dump + System File Collection App - save to Documents folder.

Run the app - Double-click on the downloaded EXE file
Output = new folder created in Documents + a zipped version -- SysnativeFileCollectionApp folder + SysnativeFileCollectionApp.zip.

Please note that the app averages ~3 minutes to run on most systems; other systems - it my take as long as 10-15 minutes to run. Please be patient.

Also note: The app auto-zips the SysnativeFileCollectionApp output folder. It is located in your Documents folder.
Windows Explorer should open and highlight the zipped folder

Please attach the SysnativeFileCollectionApp.zip to your post and await further instructions :)
 
jmarket said:
I'll tag @phillpower2 but in the meantime, can you grab some logs?

Please download the Sysnative BSOD Dump + System File Collection App - save to Documents folder.

Run the app - Double-click on the downloaded EXE file
Output = new folder created in Documents + a zipped version -- SysnativeFileCollectionApp folder + SysnativeFileCollectionApp.zip.

Please note that the app averages ~3 minutes to run on most systems; other systems - it my take as long as 10-15 minutes to run. Please be patient.

Also note: The app auto-zips the SysnativeFileCollectionApp output folder. It is located in your Documents folder.
Windows Explorer should open and highlight the zipped folder

Please attach the SysnativeFileCollectionApp.zip to your post and await further instructions :)
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Here you go, thank you.
 

Attachments

For some reason your computer is not saving BSOD dump files.

Please follow our BSOD prework and wait for another BSOD to appear, then rerun Sysnative and reupload a new archive
 
jmarket said:
Any updates for us @everways?
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Strangely, no. Everything's been running perfectly since I sent my last post reporting the restarts. I don't really want to waste this site's expert's time anymore, so is there anyway to sort of mark it as 'Solved until otherwise proven' ?
 
I'm re-opening this thread per everway's PM to me.

Unfortunately, the problem has returned, in full force. I'm probably going to have to take it in to a shop to get it looked at.

As briefly as possible:
I got a single restart yesterday after installing Unity, after reboot everything turned out fine, so I thought it might just have been a blip.
Jumping to today, I boot up the PC, login and search Unity in the windows searchbar. Nothing comes up. Midway through going into program files, I get a restart. It restarts, and I begin logging in when it restarts again. Restarts continue to occur, without a BSOD, with less and less time after boot. My initial thought was that it was the RAM problem I had a few weeks back, but when I press the reset button to try trigger the 'Diagnosing your PC' routine, I get (my first for this issues duration) a BSOD. The BSOD Stop Code reads "Critical Process Died". I now get this every single time I try boot, which triggers the Automatic Repair routine.

I've tried every option on the repair screen. It won't let me reset the machine, I can't revert to a previous version of windows, and
Code:
sfc /scannow
has no effect.
The one last attempt I'm going to make is to boot from a USB ISO of windows, after sending this.
A friend said it was a SSD issue, I haven't tested anything along those lines yet. I did clean the RAM, which fixed my previous 'can't boot' issue.
If you know of this problem and have any idea what I could do, please could you advise me what steps I could take to fix this problem, although I'm fairly certain it's hardware at this point.
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I'll tag @phillpower2 to assist you since he's been working with you on this :)
 
jmarket said:
I'm re-opening this thread per everway's PM to me.



I'll tag @phillpower2 to assist you since he's been working with you on this :)
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Thank you, I've been able to get windows back with a recovery ISO and encountered no problems in 3 hours of use. I think if the problem persists it's either a hardware issue, which I think is the more likely option, or one of 4 apps since that's all I have on the disk aside from a small photo album.
There's a small hardware shop a few minutes drive from my home, so I'll most likely take it there if removing the programs doesn't fix anything. As per @phillpower2 's suggestion, I no longer have either Malwarebytes or Avast. I've looked at Bitdefender as a possible option, but if you think that Window's Defender is sufficient, then I'll leave it be. I believe auto-update is on, and now have an activated version of Windows. The one thing I can't get rid of is Java, since I need it for a game. I'd like to thank anyone who's put any thought into this issue, I actually learnt a fair bit about Windows during the time dealing with this. If anything, I'd like to request a few tips I could use to avoid any problems of this sort again, assuming it was some sort of problem from something that I did?

I guess sorry for the possible false alarm,
everways
 
everways said:
I guess sorry for the possible false alarm,
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No problem, we are here to help if we can (y)

everways said:
If anything, I'd like to request a few tips I could use to avoid any problems of this sort again, assuming it was some sort of problem from something that I did?
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Back up regular and create back ups of your back ups for your most important data and always create a new restore point before updating or installing any new software.
 
phillpower2 said:
No problem, we are here to help if we can (y)



Back up regular and create back ups of your back ups for your most important data and always create a new restore point before updating or installing any new software.
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Thank you, I'll make sure to do that
 
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