So I was playing Battlefield 1 when all of a sudden my screen's image ripped and went black, the game sound distorted and broken. I checked the power button and found that the light for the battery was blinking orange and that the laptop was still on, but I was getting no visible response on the monitor.
I tried to turn it off and turn it back on in hopes that it was just a Windows crash. But when I tried to turn it on, I heard it give the typical small electric buzz of the power button, but it ended up just gasping in failure, unable to turn on. I tried this a few times, with the cord plugged and unplugged, before giving up and leaving it unplugged.
An hour later, I tried it again and lo and behold, IT WAS ALIVE! It turned on like normal and only had 10% battery. I thought I'd just plug in the AC cord and then hop back into Battlefield 1 but that quickly changed when I found that the AC cord wasn't charging it. Upon this discovery, I quickly shut off my laptop and began to consult the interwebs.
I wish I could pull out the battery or strip the laptop down, but all the internal components are shielded by a single flat portion of the case (a.k.a. the bottom) that requires the owner to remove it via unscrewing 10 extremely ludicrously minuscule hex screws that must be extracted with a tool of matching proportions and equally minute chance of finding it locally. I also don't have any way to test the AC cord on another laptop or something.
I'm also wondering how this could have happened since I put the laptop through much more tedious tasks than just running a Battlefield game.
PLUS I JUST GOT THIS LAPTOP LIKE TWO MONTHS AGO!
I tried to turn it off and turn it back on in hopes that it was just a Windows crash. But when I tried to turn it on, I heard it give the typical small electric buzz of the power button, but it ended up just gasping in failure, unable to turn on. I tried this a few times, with the cord plugged and unplugged, before giving up and leaving it unplugged.
An hour later, I tried it again and lo and behold, IT WAS ALIVE! It turned on like normal and only had 10% battery. I thought I'd just plug in the AC cord and then hop back into Battlefield 1 but that quickly changed when I found that the AC cord wasn't charging it. Upon this discovery, I quickly shut off my laptop and began to consult the interwebs.
I wish I could pull out the battery or strip the laptop down, but all the internal components are shielded by a single flat portion of the case (a.k.a. the bottom) that requires the owner to remove it via unscrewing 10 extremely ludicrously minuscule hex screws that must be extracted with a tool of matching proportions and equally minute chance of finding it locally. I also don't have any way to test the AC cord on another laptop or something.
I'm also wondering how this could have happened since I put the laptop through much more tedious tasks than just running a Battlefield game.
PLUS I JUST GOT THIS LAPTOP LIKE TWO MONTHS AGO!