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My computer randomly shuts down instantly. It even happens sometimes in the bios. And sometimes it runs for days under load without any problem.

I checked and it is not a temperature issue.

What I'm wondering is if it's somehow possible to log what caused the instant shutdown. I was thinking that only the motherboard could log it since sometimes it even happens when in the bios.

My motherboard is an Asus p8p67 pro rev 3.1.

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  • The BIOS is unable to log something like this. It sounds like a hardware issue. – Ramhound Sep 19 '12 at 15:55
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    @Ramhound, some motherboards have a limited amount of space with which to log certain events. Unfortunately this is not one of them. If it did, it may help since the problem is obviously hardware related. – Synetech Sep 19 '12 at 16:02
  • @Synetech - All those events happened outside of the operating system. Once you boot into the operating system anything that will be logged would be logged by the operating system. – Ramhound Sep 19 '12 at 16:13
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    @Ramhound, yes I know, and Monster clearly said that the problem happens while in the BIOS as well, so it’s not a software issue. – Synetech Sep 19 '12 at 16:20

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The motherboard will not keep logs like this.

This sort of failure could be caused by RAM though. Run memtest from http://www.memtest.org/ overnight and see if it throws up errors.

The other thing it's likely to be is a power supply on its way out, but this is harder to test without installing a spare.

Outside of that, you could see if there's an updated BIOS you could flash.

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