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How to diagnose a spontaneous reboot?

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Mar 15, 2026115190 views
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My computer reboots, seemingly completely at random, about once every week to two weeks but has occasionally gone months. It just goes from running fine to the POST with no error messages or anything and doesn't seem to be due to heat or usage as it's happened a couple of times when the computer ha…

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It certainly seems like a hardware issue. The first course of action would be to test your ram. Memtest86+ is a widely used diagnostics tool for RAM. I suggest you leave it running overnight or longer and see if it reports any errors. If your RAM se…

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