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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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How to learn the maximum power usage of my laptop
Other people already asked this question, and were referred to internet tools to calculate maximum power usage, but I don't know how to get the information it wanted. For example, it wanted to know ...
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Stop Dell from throttling CPU with power adapter
My Dell laptop is experiencing the old problem of the power adapter failing to be recognized by the computer. I know for a fact it is just a break in the data cable in the line, because if I position ...
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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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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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35% Maximum Frequency in the Windows Resource Monitor
I have a problem with my CPU as it runs over 100% on battery yet it doesn't go beyond 35% when plugged in.
Yes, I've checked power management options like a million times for high performance and ...
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