My computer shut down for no reason, what happened?

Despite the reliability of the latest versions of Windows, in some cases we encounter some problems that harm our experience with the computer. Some of these failures can be considered seriousTherefore, it is advisable to solve it as soon as possible.

It goes without saying that your computer shutting down for no apparent reason can be a huge problem. Therefore, we will show you how to look at the possible reasons for this.

Check out the event viewer

In Windows we have a file job He is responsible for keeping track of everything that happens in the operating system. Specifically, we refer to the event viewer, a feature that stores everything that happens on our computer. To access this section we just have to type its name in the search box present on the Windows taskbar.

In the new window that appears, more specifically in the left panel, we are located at Windows / System Registrates. Next, we right-click to select the option called Filter current history. Here we find a text box that says all event identifiers. In it, separated by commas, we will have to write the following ID numbers. This will help us to better identify the possible reasons for the sudden shutdown of our computer.

• Event 41: Refers to the fact that the computer was not restarted properly, which means that the computer stopped responding and crashed.
• Event 1074: This is triggered when the user manually shuts down or restarts the computer. It also happens when the system automatically restarts to apply updates.
• Event 6006: Here we have an event that is logged when the system is shut down in the traditional way.
• Event 600: In this case, the event is logged when the computer starts.
• Event 6008 – Indicates that the previous shutdown was unexpected.

Do this from PowerShell or from CMD

It should be borne in mind that we also have the possibility to determine the reason for the sudden shutdown of our computer through the command line. This is something we will show you next, for example, write cmd In the search box and when the command prompt window opens, type the following:

wevtutil qe System /q:"*[System[(EventID=41) or (EventID=1074) or (EventID=6006) or (EventID=6005) or (EventID=6008)]]" /c:100 /f:text /rd:true

In the same way, instead of using the event viewer that we saw earlier, by entering the events that we want to analyze, we can also take advantage of the tool powershell. Again we type a name in the search box on the Windows taskbar to open the corresponding window. After that, we have nothing more than to type the following command:

Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{ LogName="System"; Id = 41, 1074, 6006, 6605, 6008; } | Format-List Id, LevelDisplayName, TimeCreated, Message