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    • notverypunnyN
      notverypunny @WrCombs
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      @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

      @scotth said in Windows 10 Reboots:

      @notverypunny said in Windows 10 Reboots:

      Could it be overheating and then going to various levels of power management / throttling to manage the thermal load?

      If this is counter in a restaurant, I'd bet good money that it's covered by bags or napkins or some kind of advertisement. Our POS systems use separate power bricks and the are constantly covered up and they cook nicely.

      Lol I've seen this happen as well.
      But this is the Server that's having the issues.

      <air quotes>Server</air quotes> in this case is running W10 right? So likely just a PC in the manager's office that could equally be covered in stuff or otherwise be suffocating / overheating.

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      • WrCombsW
        WrCombs @scotth
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        @scotth said in Windows 10 Reboots:

        Hmmm, thinking out loud, UPS issue?

        I thought the same thing as well.
        But the site swears it's not a UPS issue.

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        • WrCombsW
          WrCombs @notverypunny
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          @notverypunny said in Windows 10 Reboots:

          @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

          @scotth said in Windows 10 Reboots:

          @notverypunny said in Windows 10 Reboots:

          Could it be overheating and then going to various levels of power management / throttling to manage the thermal load?

          If this is counter in a restaurant, I'd bet good money that it's covered by bags or napkins or some kind of advertisement. Our POS systems use separate power bricks and the are constantly covered up and they cook nicely.

          Lol I've seen this happen as well.
          But this is the Server that's having the issues.

          <air quotes>Server</air quotes> in this case is running W10 right? So likely just a PC in the manager's office that could equally be covered in stuff or otherwise be suffocating / overheating.

          lol, Yes, it's possible.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @Obsolesce
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            @Obsolesce said in Windows 10 Reboots:

            @Dashrender said in Windows 10 Reboots:

            That seems a bit of the top for a suggestion - not saying it's wrong, but I've never seen the requirement to get a new machine because Windows 10 was installed and something was causing it to reboot.

            Personally - I'd wipe and reload it long before buying a new machine, but you're remote, so that's a harder decision.

            Have you used the MS Fixit tool for Windows Update? that might do the trick.

            Maybe if he's making like $10 an hour then by all means dump a couple days into screwing around with an old PC with no drivers for the OS it's using. (if that's the issue... if not a reload or newer PC would soon pay for itself in given support already)

            maybe, maybe not - that assumes there is other work he could be working on.

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            • WrCombsW
              WrCombs
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              Got new information.
              the wininit.exe for this computer is sending a legacy API Shutdown everyday.
              Can someone explain to me what is,does and why it could be doing this?

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              • hobbit666H
                hobbit666 @WrCombs
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                @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                Got new information.
                the wininit.exe for this computer is sending a legacy API Shutdown everyday.
                Can someone explain to me what is,does and why it could be doing this?

                Out of interest how did you find that out?

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                • WrCombsW
                  WrCombs @hobbit666
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                  @hobbit666 said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                  @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                  Got new information.
                  the wininit.exe for this computer is sending a legacy API Shutdown everyday.
                  Can someone explain to me what is,does and why it could be doing this?

                  Out of interest how did you find that out?

                  event logs show that this is why it has been shutting down for the last 2 days.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender
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                    Check Scheduled Tasks.

                    Also check the BIOS to make sure there isn't a scheduled reboot/shutdown in there.

                    hell, just wipe the BIOS, and resetup if anything is special about your setup.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @WrCombs
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                      @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                      @hobbit666 said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                      @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                      Got new information.
                      the wininit.exe for this computer is sending a legacy API Shutdown everyday.
                      Can someone explain to me what is,does and why it could be doing this?

                      Out of interest how did you find that out?

                      event logs show that this is why it has been shutting down for the last 2 days.

                      Can you paste the log entry?

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                      • WrCombsW
                        WrCombs @Dashrender
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                        @Dashrender said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                        Check Scheduled Tasks.

                        Also check the BIOS to make sure there isn't a scheduled reboot/shutdown in there.

                        hell, just wipe the BIOS, and resetup if anything is special about your setup.

                        Not on site to check Bios.

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                        • WrCombsW
                          WrCombs
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                          s4wNCOE.png

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender
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                            according to this
                            http://www.techist.com/forums/f9/windows-10-random-reboots-277288/

                            it could be some piece of software installed causing the reboot.

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                            • WrCombsW
                              WrCombs
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                              googled it and looks like this happens a lot with virus' on the PC so I checked and a trojan was quarantined yesterday ...

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @WrCombs
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                                @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                googled it and looks like this happens a lot with virus' on the PC so I checked and a trojan was quarantined yesterday ...

                                Wipe and reload time - though I think we mentioned that several days ago. 😉

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                                • WrCombsW
                                  WrCombs @Dashrender
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                                  @Dashrender said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                  @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                  googled it and looks like this happens a lot with virus' on the PC so I checked and a trojan was quarantined yesterday ...

                                  Wipe and reload time - though I think we mentioned that several days ago. 😉

                                  Especially cause there no other events that happen prior to the shutdown.
                                  And yeah, you guys did: but this site is quite a while away.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @WrCombs
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                                    @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                    @Dashrender said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                    @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                    googled it and looks like this happens a lot with virus' on the PC so I checked and a trojan was quarantined yesterday ...

                                    Wipe and reload time - though I think we mentioned that several days ago. 😉

                                    Especially cause there no other events that happen prior to the shutdown.
                                    And yeah, you guys did: but this site is quite a while away.

                                    3rd party apps don't have to report anything to the event log. So if a third party app is doing it, you'd have to look through its logs to see if there is anything there.

                                    what else is running on this 'server'?

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                                    • WrCombsW
                                      WrCombs @Dashrender
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                                      @Dashrender said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                      @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                      @Dashrender said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                      @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                      googled it and looks like this happens a lot with virus' on the PC so I checked and a trojan was quarantined yesterday ...

                                      Wipe and reload time - though I think we mentioned that several days ago. 😉

                                      Especially cause there no other events that happen prior to the shutdown.
                                      And yeah, you guys did: but this site is quite a while away.

                                      3rd party apps don't have to report anything to the event log. So if a third party app is doing it, you'd have to look through its logs to see if there is anything there.

                                      what else is running on this 'server'?

                                      OK.
                                      This runs Aloha manager software, and apparently they downloaded a bunch of games, which we removed and scolded them for it, (not really because we can;t...but.)
                                      outside of that nothing else runs on this PC.
                                      I've mentioned reimaging to my boss but he just ignores the idea and tells me to keep looking.

                                      It's been doing it since the beginning of the year, but got worse within the last 2 months.
                                      (this is the first we heard about it when I started this thread. )

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                                      • JaredBuschJ
                                        JaredBusch @WrCombs
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                                        @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                        apparently they downloaded a bunch of games,

                                        Should have been wiped then.

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                                        • WrCombsW
                                          WrCombs @JaredBusch
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                                          @JaredBusch said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                          @WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

                                          apparently they downloaded a bunch of games,

                                          Should have been wiped then.

                                          I've mentioned this.

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                                          • WrCombsW
                                            WrCombs
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                                            found this:

                                            9ghFY4y.png

                                            Right around the time it started restarting/having issues this was installed and put in the start up folder.

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