Pc restarting since enabling remote desktop

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My htpc/media server PC is restarting every few minutes since enabling remote desktop.

The system was rock solid until that point.

I'm controlling it from my phone using the following.

Wolon for waking it from hibernation and Microsoft remote desktop app for controlling it.

The system is an X570 aurous elite motherboard which is plugged directly into one of my eero 6 pro mesh nodes.

Thanks
Scott
 
You sure RDP was the only configuration change?

Any BIOS changes to support WOL?

Does it reboot in certain situations? IE When you disconnect a remote session, when you have no remote session at all etc?
 
Probably the Sleep configuration change. C States can cause instability in a system. Were these BIOS and/or OS changes?

Would not surprise me if the OS is sleeping into a C State and the system is hanging. Is the system overclocked, over/undervolted or anytning like that?
 
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I've under volted it with core optimizer.

It was actually waking itself immediately if I told it to sleep then just doing a constant cycle of sleep/wake until I actually started to use the system.

I discovered the wake on magic packet box wasn't ticked it must have happened when I changed other settings I've ticked that and now it's miles better.

It does seem to be sleeping faster than I've set it too. This is frustrating when transferring files to a drive on it. Should it not prevent itself from sleeping If it's being accessed remotely?

Thanks
Scott
 
Take away the undervolting. RDP and wake on lan are really standard run of the mill things, they won't cause reboots etc.

Remove non stock overclocks or undervolts etc, out latest BIOS on the motherboard, then try it out.
 
It's been run like that for ages and is rock solid when in use locally it's only putting itself to sleep not crashing.

Sorry I probably didn't describe the issue very well.
 
Try to unplug all excess USB devices (at least, temporarily) on that system that's restarting. Unplug every USB connection, including the front case Headers. Leave only at most the Mouse and Keyboard, and make sure they are plugged into the Rear USB slots. And see if it still happens. I had one system (the now dead one) that actually had a short that was causing a whole variety of issues, including system restarts instead of shut downs, etc.
 
Think this seems to have sorted itself out.

I'm not sure if it was going to sleep again from the login screen sooner than it should have but it seems ok now.

Thanks everyone for the input.
 
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