A laptop PC is frequently turning off without warning resulting in a black screen and no error messages. Where can you look inside Windows for a possible reason?
syslog.msc
Event Viewer
Control Panel > Windows Settings > Logs and Failures
Windows system events and some applications will log events including errors to the Event Viewer. You can open event viewer using eventvwr.msc or eventvwr.exe. This isn't a guaranteed method of finding the issue, for example if a sudden power loss or other hardware failure occurred it most likely caused the shutdown before Windows has a chance to log anything to the Event Viewer. Still, its a great place to start to see if Windows was able to record any issues before the PC was shut down.
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