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Laptop always turns itself on again

Since yesterday my Laptop won't turn off anymore. When I shut it down, it takes a few seconds and then it turns itself on again. Doesn't matter if I let it boot and shutdown again, or turn it of in ...
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My battery stops charging randomly and then loses power

I have a Lenovo E540 running Windows 10 x64. For quite a while now, I've been having problems with how the battery charges. When I plug it in, it will always start charging - maybe for only 30 ...
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Computer having multiple hardware related power issues

Over the past few months, my computer has been experiencing multiple hardware related power issues, such as: Being unable to automatically go into sleep mode DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD Powering ...
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Pc freezes at mother board logo

My pc freezes at mother board logo and won't take any key input. If i let it standby for a few minutes, it would go to windows repair but even there, I'm unable to press any key to choose an option. ...
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Computer Randomly Turns Off Playing Taxing Gamesa

I've tried everything now. I've formatted my SSD and reinstalled windows. Monitored for overheating with no obvious problems. Nothing seems to be obvious as to why this is happening. Like I said in ...
yourknightmares's user avatar
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1 answer
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Windows 10 cpu usage not above 27%

For a while now I noticed my laptop has been slowing down. This is a pretty powerful machine. After a short investigation I see that my cpu usage never ever exceeds 27%. Looks like a power settings ...
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Windows 10: Sleep mode don't work, the computer restart itself

Sleep mode is a low-power state designed to provide very fast resuming of a computer's operation, with minimal power consumption. But when I click on Windows > Power > Sleep, my computer ...
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My PC reboots itself after upgrading to Samsung SSD 860 evo and Windows 10

My PC reboots itself multiple times after doing some heavy load task.. such as playing games, etc. my rig is old and im just slowly upgrading it.. My old specs were Windows 8.1 Intel Pentium 4400 ...
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How to safely turn off USB-connected, ATX PSU powered 3.5" hard disk drives built as internal?

I have a bunch of internal, 3.5" HDDs which I connect them to my laptop using an adaptor which converts SATA/IDE to USB 2.0. I can choose the "Safely remove storage" option in Windows 10 and it ...
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Event ID: 4101 "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." Faulty GPU or PSU?

Before RMAing my card, I wanted to make sure that this isn't a PSU related issue. I have a GTX 1080 (stock) that began crashing very often when running intensive games and software. This recently ...
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Power consumption in Windows 10 and Linux

How does Windows 10 compute the percentages of power used by various applications and hardware devices without any external power measurement device? It's a fascinating problem to be able to ...
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Windows 10 Froze At Automatic Repair At Boot

Okay so this has had me scratching my head all day. My power supply literally went out with a bang (make a pop like a firecracker before shutting down) and I had it replaced with a bigger and better ...
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GPU no signal output, installing driver (on integrated card) causes system freeze

I recently decided to build a budget PC, I bought the following parts: MOBO: Gigabyte Z170-HD3P CPU: Intel I3-6100 GPU: Asus R9 280x PSU: Cougar RS750 v3, 750W RAM: HyperX 4GB DDR4 I've ...
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HP Laptop not charging when working, doesn't start without battery - Windows 10

I have a HP laptop and yesterday I accidentally hit the laptop on the table. It was fine but when I charged it, it didn't charge at all. When it had 60% remains, the charging indicator showed white- ...
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Is there a way to "hack" the power options in Windows 10, e.g. change from to 100% instead of 60?

In this link is said There is nothing that a user needs to do manually, to maximize battery health on these batteries. For this reason, we don't provide any utility to manually manage battery ...
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