Today I reached my limit... I was so sick of 2024 randomly rebooting my PC that I finally uninstalled 😡

 

 

 

 

...uninstalled my old power supply and installed a new one, that is. My issues started late last year and seemed to coincide with an Nvidia driver update. Some folks mentioned the newer drivers messed with power profiles, and when I reverted back to the older drivers the issue (mostly) went away. After updating to SU2 and installing the latest drivers to fix CTD issues, the reboots became frequent again, usually when the load on the GPU changed during loading screens. The 3090 is notorious for power spikes, and I was running the bare minimums with a 750W PSU. I finally got fed up and decided to head over to Micro Center and drain my wallet on a new 1200W PSU, which will hopefully cover me when I decide to upgrade my system. Fired up 2024 and as expected, no more reboots!

I know it's been said a million times here, but when MSFS reboots your system, 99% of the time it is a hardware related issue.

These days, if anything causes a hard reboot.. it usually is a hardware (memory/power is usually the culprit) issue. Windows might hang, might crash .. but a full on hard reboot (straight to bios ) caused purely by software is vanishingly rare. 

Edited May 25, 20251 yr by JonathanC

FWIW I had random (once/twice a day) reboots of my PC that only started to happen after I had upgraded it to Win 10 for MSFS. Not CTD or blue screen, but full uncommanded restart of the machine, without warning, nor anything in the logs to indicate what the issue might be.

I went down that same garden path of upgrading the power supply, swapping out RAM sticks, swapping the GPU, all but replacing the MB, making sure the BIOS was up to date and didn't have any funny settings. To no avail. I trawled support forums regularly for the last few years, without success.

What ended up working for me, and I only came across this quite recently, is to set the "Minimum Processor State" in Power Options ("High Performance") to less than the default 100%. Doesn't seem to affect performance, but has completely stopped the rndom restarts.

For reference: METHOD 3 in the following

https://techcult.com/fix-computer-restarts-randomly-on-windows-10/

32 minutes ago, gunther said:

What ended up working for me, and I only came across this quite recently, is to set the "Minimum Processor State" in Power Options ("High Performance") to less than the default 100%. Doesn't seem to affect performance, but has completely stopped the rndom restarts.

That is certainly an interesting one! Could possibly be a motherboard or CPU issue, but finding out which, successfully getting an RMA, and then tearing apart your system is likely more effort than it's worth when you found a suitable workaround.

Many years ago I had a similar issue caused by a bad motherboard, there was actually a component defect in the 1.0 versions of the board that were released. It took multiple RMA's to finally get a motherboard that had the necessary revision (1.1 in this case) that fixed the issue. I wonder how many people were left with a dud because they didn't realize the board had issues...