Ran furmark for an hour with no problems, no crashes. memtest86 found no memory errors. Started up Factorio 0.17.8 with forced OpenGL and it rebooted to POST within 10 minutes, no minidump.

No worries, I didn't take offense :) I realize that there's not much to go on so far. I expect that if this is actually an issue caused by the game that more people will start to report it. I'll downgrade to earlier 17.x release and see if I can find out where it starts, and I'll separately give Ope...

And no user-mode process can force modern OS to reboot without having chance to write something in the log. And it never hurts to run hardware test to be sure. For example, i used faulty RAM for 3 months having zero issues but occasional reboots once in a 1-2 weeks of uptime and a force-closing Fir...

No minidump for me either (and I checked, they're enabled). Also no hardware issues that I've been able to observe. This has only happened when playing Factorio, not when doing other high CPU, high GPU, or high memory operations. This isn't a general system problem as far as I can tell.

This is happening to me as well, twice today. Both 0.17.7 and after updating to 0.17.8. Has never happened in Factorio before I updated to 0.17 and has not happened when not running Factorio. There's no bluescreen, just reboot to POST. I thought that it might have been a momentary power outage the f...