Battlefield 2042 restart whole pc

The game has also been restarting my PC quite consistently for a while now. It was off and on since Patch#3, clearing the cache in the "Documents\Battlefield 2042\cache" folder helped but ever since Patch 4.1 or 4.2, it stopped helping (though now i have it set so nothing can write to the folder just in case that was even an issue).

The game just power cycles the PC. The only error logs are that windows shut down unexpectedly. The game doesn't even max out my system cause I have a fps cap set in Nvidia control panel to limit fps to 144hz in 1080p (which actually helped with 100%CPU utilization so that's nice). Pretty sure it's not an overheating issue because it can go hours without restarting or having any problems.

I've tried
- turning off XMP in bios.

- different graphics drivers

- changing all the graphics settings

- clearing ea app/cache in documents

- disabling all overlays

So far, I've resorted to just keeping a journal of what's happening off the top of my head when it restarts.

3 out of the 3 times it has restarted my PC, I had been looking at smoke/smoke grenades of some sort that I did not throw.

1) Manifest, smoke, MAV, Stealth helo bombs, was bleeding out on ground

2) noshahr canals looking at scope glint through smoke, gunning wildcat barrage missile, holding rightclick zoom towards C point from road up from D.

3) caspian border, literally watched two smoke grenades get popped in front of me while lying on the ground dead and like clockwork computer restarted. (not sure if friendly or enemy but i think it was enemy smoke)

I had been running Falck with smoke grenades so I had been throwing a good amount of my own smoke grenades.

These restarts have been pretty random and have happened in <10 minutes to >5hours.

Sorry for the long post, but these are my findings so far. Will post more if I find out anything new.

My specs are:
Win10 x64

32GB ram

i7-11700K (no OC)

RTX 2080TI (on driver 528.49 cause it's the last one that had worked fine for the longest time)

PS. as a side note, since patch 4.2, I've gotten stuck in black loading screens loading into and out of games (it never used to happen before this).