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This turned out to be a faulty charger, had it replaced through warranty.

The output from powercfg is this: Existing Power Schemes (* Active) ----------------------------------- Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced) * There is a singular power setting inside. I also checked the event logs, and event 157 (Disk 0 has been surprise...

The SSD is plugged into the motherboard, on the previously empty M.2 slot, not an external connection. The reason for sleep is not actually to save power (with the right configuration the battery actually goes around 7 hours or so), but to move around classes, because there's 30 minute...

This is a Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16APH8 (RTX4070, R7 7840HS, 16 GB (upgraded to 32 with a Crucial kit), 1 TB (upgraded to 3)). Fine so far besides a possible charger issue, but one thing hurts. When I put laptop to sleep/hibernate (and I do it a lot moving class to class), the secondary SSD I...

I added another SSD to the empty slot. I did a clean reinstall, but went through the driver list on the support site (and the automatic updater) afterwards. I don't remember a battery management driver, though. On the other hand, I did a test run with the known good charger and there was no...

I had these checked, Conservation mode was off. I set it to Normal (it was on Rapid Charge), did not work. I'll try turning it on for a change. On a side note, I realized my roommate has an identical plug, so I will try using that one for a few days.

So, I got this new Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16APH8 (RTX4070, Ryzen 7 7840HS, 16GB RAM (upgraded to 32 with a Crucial kit), 1TB (upgraded to 3)) around 3 weeks ago . The second day it came it went through a RAM/SSD upgrade which went well for the most part, and both upgraded parts do pass their own...

This is a lot to process, but better have a go at it piece by piece. First off, when you were formatting, if you did this through Explorer, that's going to miss the EFI system partition which has the bootloader, so you will see the boot entry in the BIOS. Diskpart or a third party disk manager...

If you're seeing Windows Security hit this while using Firefox (or the file it catches is in a Firefox cache folder), it seems to be a recent bug and most likely a false positive: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/microsoft-defender-reporting-trojan-html-phish-pz-threat-with/m-p/48614...

I have seen the site, but this video was the one that mainly confused me: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVXHP7t0fXM In this one the person replacing the pads tells 1.0 mm for the outer pads, and also says that the card he's repairing has a lifted cooler due to too thick pads (though...

Is it a shutdown or a crash? I mean, does it just show the "shutting down" text with the spinny circle and gracefully shuts off or is it a more direct, lights-out kind of shutdown? If latter, can you describe any identifiable things with it? Like fans kicking in full power, sounds glitching etc...

So, I have this Gigabyte RX 580 Gaming 8 GB (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gigabyte-rx-580-gaming-8-gb.b4429 according to GPU-Z) and we're now having overheat shutdowns (previous thread: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/gpu-shuts-down-to-overheat-at-60-c.3833894/), so it's time to...

170 USD, but adding some discounts, I can get that down to 140. This one seems like a viable option, thanks

I can see it on a few storefronts - but most of them are pricing it at 200$ + intl. shipping. I think I could get this from Amazon if need be - but an alternative could be useful. From a online store I can spot stuff like MSI Mag A650BN, A750GL, Corsair CV550, ASUS TUF 550B, Thermaltake Smart...

Now that I think of it, sometimes things do completely refuse to power on in the rig as well, but I'm extremely reluctant to pin that on the PSU because it seems to work OK when unplugged from the case.