My windows 8 is randomly logging off on its own, bug?

My Windows 8 randomly kicks me to the password enter screen. All my programs stay up and I just have to type my password and hit enter to get back in. I am also not doing anything strenuous on the machine. The machine is overclocked though but seems stable - no blue screens.

I'm having exactly the same issue. Does anyone managed to solve this specific quoted case? I've bought a new PC and I am already experiencing this stuff, and I don't know if I should use my guarantee or if this is some not solved bug specific for my hardware.

By the way, my hardware is:

Intel i7 4790 3.60Ghz 4th Gen / 16GB DDR3 / SSHD 1TB / DVD-RW / MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4GB C/HDMI / Gab Phantom 240 White/ Fonte PCYes! 600W Series 80 PLUS Bronze

I am kinda desperate and don't know if I should change my OS to W7. Please, help me ):

Just for comparison:

When the same issue arises in Windows 7, you get the screen flicker like in Windows 8, then:

one or more

System: event id 2004 Resource-Exhaustion-Detector

Application: event id 9020 Desktop Window Manager error 0x80070008

Application: event id 9009 Desktop Window Manager closed with code 0x80070008

Application: event id 9020 Desktop Window Manager error 0x8007000e

Application: event id 9009 Desktop Window Manager closed with code 0x80070008

Then there is an application popup advicing the user to close down applications to free up memory.

Regards,

Magnus

AL_AN, same symptoms here.

IE 11, lots of tabs, when allocating memory (opening another tab, pressing "play" to start a video/animation, etc) the screen flickers, goes black for some seconds or screen update/redraw does not draw all windows correctly.

The logout just happened to me again,

After kindly logging my user off, no questions asked, I logged back in, started IE (nothing else), confirmed that I wanted to restore my "unexpectedly closed" session, waited for all tabs to load, then  pressed play on

the clip I was trying to watch. New screen flicker, new logout, no questions asked.

Again:

Application log gets winlogon 6003, then 6000 3-4 seconds later.

System log gets winlogon 7001 at the exact same time as the 6003 in the application log.

A couple of minutes before the logoff Diagnostics-Performance logs two or more 500/501 entries with opcodes Video Memory Degradation, then Video Memory Responsiveness. Messages are:

The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention.

Scenario : The Desktop Window Manager responsiveness has degraded.

The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention.

Reason : CPU resources are over-utilized.

Diagnosis : A sharp degradation in Desktop Window Manager responsiveness was observed.

The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention.

Scenario : Video memory resources are over-utilized and there is thrashing happening as a result. Reducing number of running programs and open windows may help resolve this condition.

HOWEVER, these event entries seem to be logged a lot more often than the logoffs happen so it's hard to tell whether they are related or not.

Magnus

I have the same issue but I have windows IE and well numerous tabs and it gets to the point where some websites just have tons of advs loading and it slows everything down.  I am connected to a dock to two monitors and on occasions when using IE  or applications one of the screen goes black and then comes back like nothing has happened and other times both screen flicker off to on or it seems that way.  And other times when there is heavy usage I believe from  IE then the screen goes black and for at least 30 seconds and right there I know it automatically logs me out of my session and WIndows does not allow me to save anything. Right now MY fan is only or it may be from the GPU which I think there issue is. Other times I had the driver for the video card crash and well then there are pixels on my screen which are not well defined.

I am using a M4500 With Windows 8.0 and M1800 Nvidia GPU and with 16GB Ram.

Last year or earlier in the year this was not an issue but I believe the drivers and WIndows * is not really compatible. I also use SoldiWorks 2014.

This is irritating and especially the IE issues OMG  terrible Browser!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I continue to experience this extremely frustrating issue and am considering going back to Windows 7 or to something other than Windows. What's it going to take for you to fix this, Microsoft? Do we have to get TechCrunch or Ars Technica to write an article about it?