Questions tagged [power]
Electrical power is essential to the operation of any computer and any of its components or peripherals.
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HP laptop slows down when charge is connected
My hp-laptop throttles drastically when i connect the charger to it. There is no load on the laptop but i think load does not matter as it works just fine when charger is removed.
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Recover deleted Power Automation aka Microsoft Flow
Is there a way to recover deleted Power Automation Flows?
I know that there is a PowerShell to recover PowerApps. I tried changing the syntax of the Get-Verb to flow instead of PowerApp, but no luck
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use DC power while plugged in without charging the battery?
I'm aware that keeping the battery fully charged is bad for the battery health. However, I often need to use my computer and it easily consumes a lot of battery power in a short time. (connected to an ...
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I have a dead battery and my laptop refuses to come out of power saving mode even while charger is connected
I have an Acer e5-576g laptop. I used this laptop as a PC and it is always connected to AC power. Up until recently my battery even though it was weak worked and because I was always charging it was ...
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Why simply moving the coax cable away from power panel can have such huge difference in errors?
I wonder whether anyone has experienced this. My coax cable drop from the cable company emerged through my basement wall close to my power circuit breaker panel.
Initially I hooked up the coax cable ...
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PC shuts down when selecting Sleep
I've had this problem from a while now and it is really frustrating.
It all started after I changed my SSD with a new one. The one I had was M.2 SATA and the new one is M.2 NVMe. After changing it, I ...
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Laptop turns off suddenly, then wont turn on again
This laptop started to present this problem in which it turns on briefly for about one minute, then it suddenly turns off and after that wont turn on again. If I wait about one month or so and try ...
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Lenovo charging issue - help needed regarding the recently purchased charger
I've got a Lenovo Ideapad 100S-11BY, Modal: 80R2 Laptop
I just recently bought this charger for it - Charging Device Listing
When I plug in the charger into the laptops charging port, after about 10 ...
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How to know what current output a USB-C port can provide?
I'm designing an electronic device that will plug into a USB-C port. We need at least 7.5W (5V, 1.5A). The USB-C spec says that not all ports support the 7.5W or 15W output, but that it's optional. ...
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Finding out laptop battery charging polarity and voltage & current
I have 2 problems:
First one, I can not find the polarity of a laptop battery with which it charges. I don't know much about laptop batteries, and the only thing that is written on the label about it ...
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MiniPC started showing black screen overnight
The device in question is Minisforum HM80. I swapped SSD to larger one (with no heatsink, maybe it matters here), installed Fedora and it was running great for a couple of months (though I started to ...
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Windows 10 won't go to sleep
Recently, Windows started to hang when going to sleep, which then shuts down on its own. The odd thing is that this doesn't happen all the time. It is able to sleep normally without issues when I just ...
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laptop shows no reaction to power button
I wanted to install Linux on an old Lenovo G585.
I interrupted a Xubuntu install process rudely while it was copying data (after the keyboard layout and language configuration).
Now the laptop doesn't ...
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TLP vs sysfsutils for limiting machine temperature
Let's say we wish to keep our desktop, which runs Debian stable (with some minor upgrades from snapshots), relatively cool (e.g. because the machine has only passive cooling) by limiting the machine ...
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Can a PSU handle nanosecond power-outtages?
My GPU has recently died, and I got to wounder why. I have been having PC shutdowns and bluescreens over the last 5 years. I noticed at some point, that these often happen when someone turned on a ...
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