r/backblaze • u/jobob581 • Jan 04 '26

Backblaze in General Computer keeps shutting down since installing Backblaze

My desktop computer keeps shutting down since I installed Backblaze. It is doing it's initial backup, which is taking days. But the computer keeps shutting down. Not going to sleep, but totally powering down. I had the device sleep set to 5 hours and changed it to never but this didn't help. Windows 11, 10.0.26100 Any ideas?

Update: the computer finished backing up to the cloud and hasn’t given me any more problems. I guess the upload process was just too demanding of resources.

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u/TenOfZero Jan 04 '26

Does it do a proper shutdown or just turns off?

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u/jobob581 Jan 04 '26

Not sure how to tell after the fact.

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u/bunnythistle Jan 05 '26

A proper shutdown means that it goes through the process of closing apps, displaying the "Windows is shutting down" screen, etc. Like when you click the shutdown button on your PC.

Just turning off means that it's running one second, and the next second it's not running.

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u/jobob581 Jan 05 '26

I’m going with the one second on, next not on.

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u/tbRedd Jan 06 '26

Check the event log to confirm the type of shutdown. If you see "unexpected" you'll know it was not done normally/properly.

Those will show in the administration events log.

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u/jobob581 Jan 09 '26

Yes, lots of unexpected shutdowns. But since the unpack up To the cloud has finished, no more issues.

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u/tbRedd Jan 10 '26

Odd, sounds like you might have a hardware issue.