Nowadays, even when we have a low battery, if it is working properly, a laptop does not suddenly turn off, but before the system takes care of going to sleep and emptying the storage, whether this HDD or SSD, RAM status. In such a way that when the system restarts, the reverse process is carried out and we can continue whatever we leave. However, if this happens suddenly, it is already more problematic due to the loss of our work, especially if we have not recently recorded what we were doing.
Why does a laptop turn off suddenly?
The answer to this question is simple, it completely cuts the energy supply food or drums. Although the question we should ask ourselves is: what is causing this situation unexpectedly and, therefore, having nothing to do with any of our actions? Well, there are actually several reasons for this.
The battery starts to run low
Most obvious of all is the state of battery health, either because it is already exhausting its cycles or because it is of lower quality than expected. That is to say, from sending batteries for your laptop you touched one the frog came out The problem? Laptops are often sold with an overall warranty that is much lower than the average battery life. In any case, if you want to check the status of the battery and know if it’s time to change it, you can do it from the terminal.
- press the CTRL+X keys and select PowerShell (administrator) in the menu that appears.
- Type the following command: powercfg /batteryreport
With this you will be able to know if it is the battery that is out of breath and immediately exclude that its health is the reason for the sudden breakdowns.
due to overheating
Computers today not only have processors and memories, but also other circuits operating in parallel, but the most misunderstood are those of control. Among them are digital thermometers who are in charge of measure the temperature in different parts of the laptop. If you reach the point where the rise of it is too fast in a short time. That is to say, the heat rises like foam, that’s when you have to avoid things like a possible explosion of the battery in time, because they send the signal to stop.
If this happens to you, you have the dirty laptop inside and the accumulation of hair, particles and other elements increases its internal temperature, to the point of turning it into an oven. Although it is not the only factor, since it can be other factors like now:
- The ace the air inlets and outlets are blocked, so you will have to clean them with a compressed air spray. We recommend that you complete the job using a small hand-held vacuum, such as those used to clean keyboards.
- The the fan does not workyou will therefore have to change it for a new one of the same type.
- The battery gets too hot check it to see if it is swollen or transmitting too much heat. If so, it may be faulty and for safety reasons, consider looking for a replacement.
The problem may come from certain components
If you see that the laptop is completely clean or clean enough not to warrant sudden overheating, you should consider that the problem can be found somewhere faulty component. We must therefore identify which of them it is, for this we must go to the Windows device manager and find which components are with the exclamation mark. This may indicate unusual operation.
- To access it, just hurry at the same time the keys Windows and X and in the menu that appears, select the appropriate option.
- Double-click the device to open its properties window. The system will give you information about the source of the problem. That is, if it is an overheating issue, it will leave it marked.
- several times the problem is it with the pilots or the device driver. So try updating them from the control panel, if the problem persists, find an alternative source and install them manually.
The BIOS you are using is too old
This is usually not the most common problem, but it could all be due to the BIOS is not up to date. Especially if we’ve made changes to the interior and used components that didn’t exist when the PC went on sale. Although this is usually not a problem, unless we intend to install very modern components in a very old laptop, it is true that a Outdated BIOS
- To find out if our BIOS is outdated, we can always use the program CPU-Z which in the tab “Motherboard” It will tell us what the BIOS version of our system is.
- Then we will go to the manufacturer’s website and check what is the version of the BIOS more recent. If the version we have is very old, we might be interested in updating it with a much more modern version.
However, there is always a reason why your laptop shuts down and it has nothing to do with overheating, missing drivers or faulty components but a software issue.
Your laptop turns off without warning? It may be a virus
Yes there is malware who can reach overheat your computer which makes CPU, graphics, and even RAM excessive to the point where components hold the Boost state for too long in a sustained fashion. Let’s not forget that a laptop is not designed to support high clock speeds. So it gets to the point where the laptop shuts down.
However, some viruses have the ability to perform a sudden shutdown, it is because the operating system has this action on the hardware and therefore the virus will only have to invoke this command to annoy us. So in this case you will have to perform a deep cleaning with an antivirus to solve the problem once and for all.
If after having made all these checks the problem persists and the laptop suddenly turns off, then all you have to do is take it to the technical service so that they can carry out the corresponding repair.
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