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Re:Lobotomizing Gnome by s3m4j on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:37AM (#17186066)
Anecdotal, but I, on the other hand, have had quite a few forced reboot.

I close the lid of my laptop and Windows goes to sleep, but during the night it somehow decides to do its thing and reboots. The thing is, I have BIOS password and a dual boot.

It will then just hangs indefinitely on the BIOS password prompt. Fans spinning, CPU unthrottled for hours. And then lose network drivers inside Windows. Reinstalling drivers in the morning is not fun.

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Re:Lobotomizing Gnome by dpwm on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:59AM (#17186169)
That sounds like it's setting an RTC timer to wake up. You may be able to disable that. It may be called wake on timer or wake on RTC.
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Re:Lobotomizing Gnome by s3m4j on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:54PM (#17189911)
I have win10 pro, in theory I have disabled automatic reboots. In theory.
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