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    Solved! Dell XPS 9550 freezes after removing ac power and on battery power

    ADATA got back to me and suggested the drive may be faulty. I have however managed to fix the issue finally, this is what I wrote back to ADATA support with and hopefully might help someone else out who is having issues with their ADATA SSD or ADATA SSD Toolbox: Hi, I think after months of...
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    Solved! Dell XPS 9550 freezes after removing ac power and on battery power

    So tried reinstating the original 500GB SSD back in the laptop and worked fine on both battery and AC power. Also tried booting from the External Enclosure with 1TB SSD, interestingly when I did that only the 1TB SSD showed up in explorer. Perhaps an effect of one drive being a clone of the...
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    Solved! Dell XPS 9550 freezes after removing ac power and on battery power

    Ok, some more observations. I dug out the original 500GB SSD (which I was using for something else so was reformatted). I cloned the 1TB SSD that is currently inside the laptop to the 500GB drive, which is in an enclosure. I restarted the laptop via F12 boot options, From the two boot...
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    Solved! Dell XPS 9550 freezes after removing ac power and on battery power

    Would that still be the case if I can boot to linux from USB ok with no freezing on battery or removing ac.
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    Solved! Dell XPS 9550 freezes after removing ac power and on battery power

    thanks for your response I have only used the Dell update site for selecting drivers. That site says I am up to date with their recommended drivers Have tried safe mode and still freezes when switching from ac to battery I have tried reinstalling windows server times using different options...
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    Solved! Dell XPS 9550 freezes after removing ac power and on battery power

    I have a 3 year old Dell XPS 9550 which had a new battery 18 months ago. The problem I have is that when I unplug the AC power cord the laptop begins to freeze. The mouse can be moved with trackpad. Window can be selected a little bit but can't switch between apps. Then within 30 seconds of...