Computer Randomly Restarting

undisputed565

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Not sure if this is the right forum but here it goes...

So I built this PC roughly 1 year ago and up until recently I didn't realize it had been randomly restarting every couple months. The screen goes black, the fan revs really high then it reboots. I've only noticed it twice but the event viewer says its happened 6 times over the past year. When it happened today it I just brought my computer out of sleep and started surfing the net, shortly after that it occurred.

My build is:

Windows 7
Mobo: MSI Z77A-GF65
GPU: Geforce GTX 670
PSU: Corsair TX750
Ram: 2x 4Gb Corsair Vengeance
CPU: 3.4 GHZ Intel i5 3570k
SSD: Crucial m4 256gb

When I check event viewer it comes up as:

Source: Kernel-Power
Event ID: 41
Task Category: 63

Details:

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}

EventID 41

Version 2

Level 1

Task 63

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000000002

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2013-08-04T17:58:40.010006100Z

EventRecordID 44420

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8

Channel System


- EventData

BugcheckCode 278
BugcheckParameter1 0xfffffa800f59a010
BugcheckParameter2 0xfffff8800521cf60
BugcheckParameter3 0xffffffffc000009a
BugcheckParameter4 0x4
SleepInProgress false
PowerButtonTimestamp 0

Any help would be appreciated thanks.
 
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The dump file should be located in the following directory C:\Windows\Minidump. If you find files in that folder you will need to find a program that will read the dump file such as Windows debugging tools but there are others out there that will do the same thing.

You will also want to look in the event log and see if you can tell if there was something running just prior to the reboot on each of the 6 reboots.

undisputed565

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Not that I can see, I'm not sure how to acquire that information.

 

neieus

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The dump file should be located in the following directory C:\Windows\Minidump. If you find files in that folder you will need to find a program that will read the dump file such as Windows debugging tools but there are others out there that will do the same thing.

You will also want to look in the event log and see if you can tell if there was something running just prior to the reboot on each of the 6 reboots.
 
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