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Any ideas?

Event Viewer doesn't show anything useful, just that the previous PC shutdown was 'unexpected'.

It wasn't an instantaneous power failure, I noticed it appeared to be doing something (TF2 stopped being the dominant window, as though something else had opened), right before it shut down.

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Did your power cable come loose?

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If the power cable was loose, surely I wouldn't have been able to boot it back up? Also, wouldn't it have died instantly?

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Yeah, loose power cable would have been a cut to black kind of situation.

So it turned off normally without warning? Were you installing anything at all?

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Did you get the shutting down messages or did it skip that part?

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Si wrote:
Did you get the shutting down messages or did it skip that part?


It skipped it.

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The only time I've known that happen is when the GPU overheats and the PC is turning itself on to stop itself melting.

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Si wrote:
The only time I've known that happen is when the GPU overheats and the PC is turning itself on to stop itself melting.


It's possible, is there any way I can find out if this was the case? I was running TF2 at the time.

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