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High pitch whine followed by static - laptop battery
I was reinstalling windows on my girlfriend's laptop when a strange buzzing came from the battery and the pc shut down.
After multiple attempts to install windows 10, then 8, then 7...
After a day and ...
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My laptop does strange behaviors, what could be the reason?
I bought a used laptop and it doesn't shutdown. It only restarts. I mean after shutting it down it powers on automatically and immediately.
If I'm on windows (after booting into windows), I have to ...
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Laptop shuts down a few seconds after booting (not a power issue)
I recently received an old acer aspire 8920G laptop.
Processor: Intel centrino Core 2 Duo T8300 2 x 2.4GHz
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS - 512 MB
Memory: 4 GB DDR2
Display: 18.40 inch 16:9, ...
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Computer Shutting Down at ~50% Battery
My laptop is unexpectedly turning off when it reaches about around 50% battery, but the actual level can be anywhere between 40% and 60%. It never turns off when plugged in. Whenever it does shut off, ...
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Asus laptop shuts off randomly
I Have X541U Asus laptop with Windows 10 and it is about a year old. Initially the laptop was fine but recently it has started randomly shutting down without warning when not plugged in.
I am not ...
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How can I solve the critical error "Kernel Power EventID 41"?
My laptop started doing this recently
It does this sometimes when I wake it from sleep /standby. It just restarts.
And sometimes when I turn it on (from having it properly shut down the day before).
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How can I configure Windows 10 to shutdown AFTER a certain amount of time AFTER I close the lid?
I want to make it so after I close the lid:
First, the system goes to sleep
After 10 minutes, the system shuts down
Is this possible?
I saw this question, but it is for Windows 7 and I am asking for ...
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CAPS LOCK shuts down the computer immediately
I have discovered this problem with my Laptop, today itself. No matter what the environment, app, screen is, as soon as I press CAPS LOCK key, the computer shuts itself down abruptly (abnormal ...
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Windows forces update [duplicate]
I have disabled updates on win 10 by going to run ->services.msc -> windwos updates.
Now the trick is, unless you hibernate, shutting down and restarting deletes this setting, and windows update ...
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Laptop - is it safe when using force shutdown (deep shutdown)
My asus laptop (FA507RC) is facing the issue that battery drained even i did a completely shutdown.
I found a solution here: solution (hold power button after the laptop shutdown)
But i'm not sure ...
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Acer Swift 1 randomly shuts down when moved (Acer SF114-32)
I have an issue with an Acer Swift 1 laptop.
It sometimes switches off when moved. It can even turn off from touching the keyboard.
When powering back on, I must hold down the power button and ...
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Why did my Windows 10 PC shut down (automatically), saying that the battery is low when it showed 72% just seconds before?
Recently, at least twice, my Windows 10 PC shut down automatically, saying that the battery had drained. But it wasn't even a minute before I saw it when it was 72%. I opened a few apps, a heavy code ...
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Laptop goes to hibernation after 15 minutes of inactivity while plugged in
I have the a laptop, which is running on Windows 10 (22H2) (OS Build: 19045.2546) and I have been facing hibernation issue every 15-20 minutes when left idle, since today morning. This happens when ...
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ASUS N56VM-AB71 laptop suddenly shuts down on battery
Caveat: I know an ASUS N56VM-AB71 is a 10 year old laptop, and it was only mid-range in the first place, but aside from this issue it works remarkably well and I can still even play games on it (no ...
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Fans speeding up to max at regular intervals, leading to forced shutdowns
This is happening on a plugged in laptop, I know it's the fans because I have an SSD, at regular intervals the fan will go full throttle for like 15 seconds and then the system shuts down. I've ran ...