unexpected shutdown?

[Goatman88]

I have an unlicensed (180 day) trial of 2012 installed on a new HP server. It was running normally for a few days then it shutdown yesterday for no apparent reason.

Event log showed:

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 6/5/2013 12:42:06 PM
Event ID: 109
Task Category: (103)
Level: Information
Keywords: (4)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: xxxxx.xxxxx.com
Description:
The kernel power manager has initiated a shutdown transition.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="

http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>109</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>103</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000004</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-06-05T19:42:06.506660500Z" />
<EventRecordID>1154</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="84" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>B2FS1.b2gold.com</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="ShutdownActionType">6</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownEventCode">16</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownReason">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

There are no events in the logs regarding updates or any errors or warnings that would have triggered this. I've read some posts that suggest non-activated copies of Windows will do this. Can anybody confirm this?

 

[itsp1965]

Try disabling auto-restart of the server following a blue-screen and then the next time it occurs check the event logs again. Could be a driver issue

 

[Goatman88]

ITSP:

Thanks for your reply but this is not a BSOD issue. It simply turns itself off with no error codes or indications as to why. No updates were applied so I know that's not it. It just seems to have decided to abitrarily shut itself down as the event log entry indicates.