P55-cd53 Restart on boot, what does it mean

 I have a nice , NOT  overclocked yet, stable Win7 x64 build running for about 6 weeks.
 For the first time that I noticed, when booting up this am, the power leds went on, off, and a few seconds later rebooted again properly.
 I'm not terrible concerned, but I wonder why it did that?  Is is a symptom of something I need to keep an eye on?

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Did you install any new hardware or was there any power outage before the issue occur?

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