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I finally caught it in the act!

I've complained before about my laptop frequently rebooting on its own, usually at night. I initially thought it was for Windows Updates, but the increased frequency has made me doubt this.

This time I caught it rebooting on its own during the day after a blue screen of death too fast for me to see the error code. I went to the Windows Event Log and I saw an error logged after the reboot but nothing specific at the time of the crash itself. It generated a dump I can't open by myself, which is a poor hint at what might be the problem.

The laptop seller offered me to repair the computer at their facility, but for that I first need to save my data on an external storage as I last transferred my data directly from my old computer to the new. I know I had some 2.5" drives stashed somewhere in my house so I ordered an enclosure.

However, I'm not able to find the drives anymore so I'll have to order an actual drive since I now have an empty enclosure, which will delay the troubleshooting process further.

Stay tuned for the next episode of my modern computer woes!

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A Sweet Gentleman
A Sweet Gentleman
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Reading this I so had an image of the laptop looking like a rabbit caught in the headlights while you go 'A-HA!' jumping out of a corner.
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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@A Sweet Gentleman Honestly that's how it felt on the moment, and it quickly rebooted in shame to cover its tracks.
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Martijn Vos
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My new work-supplied macbook has a similar problem: often reboots while it's supposed to be sleeping. Fortunately it shoves the error message in my face after that. Unfortunately I have no idea what it means.

But worse is when it fails to connect to the VPN and occasionally even to wifi.

Could be a driver issue, but it's out of my hands because it's work-managed.

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Carlos Solís
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@Hypolite Petovan I was surprised about seeing a gap in Friendica's development branch - after several months of daily commits, I noticed no commits at all for the last five or so days. And yeah I guess this explains the broken streak. Good luck fixing your issue!
@Hypolite Petovan
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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@Carlos Solís Not sure how much it contributed, @Michael Vogel is the main contributor and his absences are more felt than mine for sure. I appreciate the well wish though!
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Michael Vogel
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The last days I worked at some improvements to the "blockbot" addon, but several times I started from the beginning, since I realized that user agent string parsing is really hard. So I'm still in between. Additionally I'm currently struggling with the performance of my development/productive machine which has frequent load issues now for the last days. I'm still unable to find the reason, so my development is impaired.
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Carlos Solís
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@Michael Vogel @Hypolite Petovan I wasn't that wrong in assuming technical issues then! Good luck dealing with the performance issues for you as well!
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