Computer randomly restarts
Hello again. It is always a problem that brings me back!
Since about a month, I have noticed my computer restarting on its own. Early on, I would find it restarted in the morning. I didn't think much of it since Windows would typically do updates overnight and sometimes, needed a restart.
Then, a couple of times, I noticed it happened during the day; I would go to work in the morning, and it was on, but when I came back in the afternoon, it was restarted. That made me think that it would be unlikely to be Windows updates.
That could happen 2 or 3 times a week, but occasionally, it would happen twice in a day.
Over the weekend, it happened (for the first time), while I was at the computer (using Word).
I saw a blue screen with a bunch of messages (I took a picture but I can't seem to be able to attach it).
Then, it restarted, went to that grey screen asking if I wanted to start in normal mode or what.
I chose to start in Normal mode and everything was fine, until the next restart (which might have been the next day or so).
I checked back a month or so, to see what program I might have installed and found a few small programs I had installed to test for a document. They were no longer needed so I deleted them. It has not solved the problem.
One thing I notice is that when I load Outlook, after such an unexpected restart, I would typically get a message about the data and it would take X number of minutes (often between 5 and 8 minutes), then it would start normally.
I am using Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz
8.0 GB RAM
I am worried something is definitely going wrong and I would like to know if there is a way to identify (or narrow down) to the possible cause of this.
Thanks.
