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Brand new laptop making an electrical sizzling noise when opening programs

I just bought the Acer V17 Nitro VN7-792G-705X. The processor is the Intel i7-6700HQ. I noticed that when I open a program, say google chrome, you can distinctly hear a sizzling noise coming from ...
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Event ID 37: kernel processor power and problems shutting down

HP Pavilion dv6610eg Changes 2 weeks ago I: cleaned my notebook and renewed thermal material (thermal paste and thermal pads) replaced the HDD with a Samsung 128GB SSD: I can only use it in IDE ...
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Reduce CPU and GPU Power Consumption

I have a gaming laptop (i5-10300H and RTX2060 - Intel Gateway Creator Series), and as expected, it has sub-par battery life, especially because it is so powerful. However, I don't need this power all ...
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Motherboard power LED goes on but quickly goes off, with a "tumble" sound, and this goes on in cycles, while nothing else happens

Laptop Toshiba Satellite L850-1V7 Power LED goes on but quickly goes off, with a "tumble" sound, and this goes on in cycles, while nothing else happens. A video of it: https://drive.google....
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Laptop won't turn on, but still feels warm?

I have an HP Elitebook 840 G4 that won't turn on but still feels warm. I tried holding the power button for 15 seconds. The power light and caps lock both illuminate for 3 seconds then turn off and ...
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Intermittent turn on fault with laptop

I have a PCSpecialist laptop (custom built/cheap chinese barebone parts). The laptop is three years old and has been used for fairly intensive gaming without 'good' cooling. The laptop has an ...
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