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Comments on How do I start diagnosing why a Windows Server turns itself off?

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How do I start diagnosing why a Windows Server turns itself off?

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We have a Windows Server, running Microsoft 2019 Essentials that is supposed to be on all of the time, but after a couple of days it will turn itself off, and then we have to manually turn it back on.

How do I start the process of trying to figure out why it's turning off? Are there Windows logs somewhere that I can look at?

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First figure out the kind of "turning off" you are dealing with. Is it a regular shutdown by the OS, ... (3 comments)
First figure out the kind of "turning off" you are dealing with. Is it a regular shutdown by the OS, ...
elgonzo‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago
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First figure out the kind of "turning off" you are dealing with. Is it a regular shutdown by the OS, or a BSOD (in the case of a BSOD, i would normally not expect the system powering off but rather restarting or staying in the BSOD, but who knows...), or is it just the hardware unceremoniously turning off? Based on those findings, you should then hopefully know whether you should take a closer look at system logs and system configuration, or whether you should spend time diagnosing hardware or power problems...

elgonzo‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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With respect to the Windows logs, as far as i know it's still using the event log, which you should be able to inspect with the Windows Event Viewer.

Charlie Brumbaugh‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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I think its a regular shutdown, a BSOD has never been observed on it.