Solved Unexpected Shutdowns occuring daily if PC left on over night

[abba2566]

Usually, when I go to bed, I leave my PC in hibernation mode (or off altogether.)
But quite often, if I need to export anything or leave a certain process running, then I will leave it doing that overnight.

When I first got this PC, I had similar issues which I assumed was caused by overheating (as the stock cooler wasn't great), so if I was exporting a video it was reaching 70-80c.

Now I'm encountering the same issue, but I don't think it's related to over heating. For example today, I exported an hour long video during the day (and whilst I was using the PC for other things) then it was running fine. Yet leaving another video (of a similar length) to export overnight and the PC has switched itself off within 30 minutes.


The error in the event log reads:
General:
The previous system shutdown at 23:37:09 on ‎30/‎08/‎2016 was unexpected.

Log Name: System
Source: EventLog
Event ID: 6008
Level: Error
User: N/A
Op Code:

Logged: 31/08/2016 09:46:13
Task Category: None
Keywords: Classic
Computer: [PC Name]


Details:
System:
- Provider
[ Name] EventLog
- EventID 6008
[ Qualifiers] 32768
Level 2
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2016-08-31T08:46:13.000000000Z
EventRecordID 2060
Channel System
Computer [PC Name]
Security


- EventData

23:37:09
‎30/‎08/‎2016


43563


E007080002001E001700250009009C01E007080002001E001600250009009C01600900003C000000010000006009000000000000B00400000100000000000000


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Binary data:


In Words

0000: 000807E0 001E0002 00250017 019C0009
0008: 000807E0 001E0002 00250016 019C0009
0010: 00000960 0000003C 00000001 00000960
0018: 00000000 000004B0 00000001 00000000


In Bytes

0000: E0 07 08 00 02 00 1E 00 à.......
0008: 17 00 25 00 09 00 9C 01 ..%...œ.
0010: E0 07 08 00 02 00 1E 00 à.......
0018: 16 00 25 00 09 00 9C 01 ..%...œ.
0020: 60 09 00 00 3C 00 00 00 `...<...
0028: 01 00 00 00 60 09 00 00 ....`...
0030: 00 00 00 00 B0 04 00 00 ....°...
0038: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
How are you monitoring your temperatures ?
Download MajorGeeks.Com - MajorGeeks

See if the two updates posted on post #2 exist or not
Windows Update will not update and I've tried multiple fixes

 

[abba2566]

Thanks for the welcome.

I am using Core Temp (1.4) Primarily to check temperature. I ran speedfan (4.52) along side it a little bit earlier and the two seemed to agree on temperature.

The first update you reference was already installed (KB3020369) and the second said 'The Update is not applicable to your computer.'

 

[abba2566]

I ran speedfan for a longer time this evening and I noticed that it had 'CPU' labelled as well as the cores. The CPU was slightly hotter than the cores were (2 or 3c)

When I tried to export something last night, I used task manager to limit it to 3 cores running and there was no crash, I'm starting to think that maybe it is overheating.

 

[abba2566]

I'm now convinced it was an overheating problem. Added a second fan to my CPU heatsink and not experienced a crash since.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
An easy fix then
I requested some help here to test the memory... which I'm not familiar with the process

 

[abba2566]

For RAM testing?
Check out this article: Windows 7 x64 - How can I test my memory? - Super User