Let's say I leave my computer go to the other room but instead I leave for like an hour or two. Before when I would come to my computer it would just need me to press a button then put in my password and it would go back to where I left off. Now when I get back it's completely off and It goes to the screen that gives you options to start in safe mode or regular mode etc... Then when I get it to start again it tells me it recovered from a system failure or whatever? Anybody have ideas why its doing this all of a sudden?
Update:Did the event viewer and this comes up a lot
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 4/25/2012 3:15:42 PM
Event ID: 41
Task Category: (63)
Level: Critical
Keywords: (2)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: Owner-PC
Description:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Event Xml:
41
2
1
63
0
0x8000000000000002
30295
System
Owner-PC
0
0x0
0x0
0x0
0x0
true
129798657107436287
Answers & Comments
Verified answer
Either your OS is corrupted, you have a bad driver installed, you have a virus/malware OR you have some failing hardware in your computer - (Usually hard drive or memory sticks or video card)
These Blue screens are not easy to diagnose. It will need expert intervention to get to the route of the problem.
The first thing to try is a system restore using the windows restore feature. Make sure you go back to a date before the fault started., if this does not work and you are sure it is not virus/malware related then you need to re-load the OS from the original install discs to get it back to factory condition.
-Now is when you will know if the fault is hardware related. If it fails to re-load successfully or it still gives blue screens it will definitely be hardware.
This will mean a trip the the repair shop unless you know what you are doing.
However you could try Removing all memory sticks and re-fit using one at a time and boot up.
If you cure the fault this way you know that it is a bad ram stick, But as I say if you cannot find the cause after this it will need professional intervention,
Good luck.
Check in Event Viewer to see if it is recording this particular fault.
That will reduce the speculation as to the probable cause.
It could be an overheating problem - but that is just a guess.
Mine does that sometimes but I don't worry about it unless it doesn't recover. If it won't recover someday just turn it off and unplug the power cord then take out the ram and put it back in and it will work again. This resets the bios and fixes a "crash".