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2019-08-17, 07:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2018
My computer just restarted - should I be worried?
Title pretty much says it all. My computer restarted on its own. I got a message, said there was some kind of problem and it needed to restart. I was able to take a picture of my screen:
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(Part of the image may be cut off so here's also a link to the image.)
Just wondering if I should be worried. This has never happened before. I'm currently running a complete scan with my anti-virus software (McAfee). Just wondering what others think.
edit: I'm making this post (and uploaded the screen image) from my old computer that didn't get the restart message.Last edited by Magic_Hat; 2019-08-17 at 07:45 PM.
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2019-08-18, 03:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2017
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Re: My computer just restarted - should I be worried?
If it just happens once, everything should be fine. This is ' just' a blue-screen crash (IE: a crash windows accounted for and can handle by turning your computer off and on again), and those happen once in a while. Please note that that screen actually listed some information regarded what happened in the form of that stop code (PFN_LIST_CORRUPT in your case). You can google that one to find out more information on what happened
Last edited by DeTess; 2019-08-18 at 03:18 AM.
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2019-08-18, 09:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- Cippa's River Meadow
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Re: My computer just restarted - should I be worried?
PFN List Corrupt looks like a file lookup hiccup and is easily fixable.
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2019-08-18, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2014
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- Tulips Cheese & Rock&Roll
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Re: My computer just restarted - should I be worried?
Yeah, that's just the "new" blue screen of death. There's a bit more variety in message and such, and on some machines it's actually pink, but for most purposes it's the same old thing.
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