My PC keeps crashing. I don't know how to diagnose it.

[Invincible Sugar]

Hi! My PC keeps crashing with every boot. It gets to the desktop and operates normally, but within 5 to 10 minutes of use it crashes. No blue screen, no errors. It just freezes and needs to be powered off by pressing and holding the power button.

 

I know in a worst case I could start removing hardware and programs until it stops but I have a ton of both, is there a smarter option? Does Windows log something somewhere that could be used as a starting point? If not, is there something I can enable in windows or download and install to log things?

 

If it helps I'm running Windows 10 on a x86 Intel based laptop. Thanks!

[Sentrico Official]

have you tried booting it on safe mode?

 

[Invincible Sugar]

5 minutes ago, Sentrico Official said:

have you tried booting it on safe mode?

 

I have not... gosh it's been so long xD I'll try that and report back. Thank you.

[Euchre]

This sounds like a power or thermal kind of failure.