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Intermittent power off
Over the past 2 years my PC has been afflicted with random power off/power on/reboot events. It will go for months without these and then have multiples of the events in a day. (I had 8 of them 3 days ago.) I assume I have a hardware problem, but nothing has been found and I'm grasping at straws.
The time between power off and power on is several seconds. I had assumed this rules out a software cause, but maybe I'm wrong. I know Windows can schedule a power off, but can it tell BIOS (or something) to power back on in a few seconds? And would it do this for any kind of problem?
I know blaming the power supply is a much more simple explanation, but then I'm left with explaining the intermittent nature of the failure.