I built a new PC from the ground up a few year back. Every morning when I would sit down to start working I noticed it had rebooted around 6:30 am. I searched through every single log, ran all sorts of hardware scans, checked power outputs, dug through everything in Task Schedulers, and could not find a single reason it would keep rebooting. There were no Event Logs showing the reboot was initiated and no minidump files so it wasn’t a BSOD.
I woke up early one morning and sat in my office waiting for it to reboot and nothing. The next morning I go in my office at 8 and it had rebooted. Some mornings it would reboot and others it would not. I was convinced it had to be my power supply and was about to order a new one.
Then I came downstairs right at 6:30 one morning and caught my son walking out of my office. Turns out he was going into the office every morning and holding down the power button and forcing a reboot because liked watching all the RGB light turning all at once when it would turn on.
My gaming PC has a power button on the top of the case. It makes a lot of sense to put it there…
…except when you have cats. And I have 3. I have had it “helpfully” shut off at least twice mid-game. Now I have something that I keep over the button in case the cat is wandering around again.
I definitely thought a story about someone’s son sneaking in to the study to use a computer before everyone else was awake was going to have a different, less wholesome ending lol.
I built a new PC from the ground up a few year back. Every morning when I would sit down to start working I noticed it had rebooted around 6:30 am. I searched through every single log, ran all sorts of hardware scans, checked power outputs, dug through everything in Task Schedulers, and could not find a single reason it would keep rebooting. There were no Event Logs showing the reboot was initiated and no minidump files so it wasn’t a BSOD.
I woke up early one morning and sat in my office waiting for it to reboot and nothing. The next morning I go in my office at 8 and it had rebooted. Some mornings it would reboot and others it would not. I was convinced it had to be my power supply and was about to order a new one.
Then I came downstairs right at 6:30 one morning and caught my son walking out of my office. Turns out he was going into the office every morning and holding down the power button and forcing a reboot because liked watching all the RGB light turning all at once when it would turn on.
My gaming PC has a power button on the top of the case. It makes a lot of sense to put it there…
…except when you have cats. And I have 3. I have had it “helpfully” shut off at least twice mid-game. Now I have something that I keep over the button in case the cat is wandering around again.
Of course there’s a thing for that…
Nice. I might have to get that. Thanks!
I definitely thought a story about someone’s son sneaking in to the study to use a computer before everyone else was awake was going to have a different, less wholesome ending lol.