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How to unfreeze an Acer laptop?

cherubi

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Oct 8, 2016
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My laptop is an Acer Aspire E 15, and I think I may have overwhelmed it by opening too many tabs on Google chrome (12 tabs in total). The laptop doesn't feel that hot, though. No key I press makes any difference, and touching the touchpad doesn't move the mouse. The laptop doesn't shut down when I close it or press power. I had some music playing before it froze, and now the laptop is making a strange electric humming noise that sounds like the last note of the music being repeated. What can I do? It's been 22 minutes since it froze.
 
Solution


Hold the power button until it turns off.


Hold the power button until it turns off.
 
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