u/Kind_Profit_5761

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Laptop randomly “shuts off” and refuses to turn back on for hours

Hello, I have a victus 15 fb2xxx which I’ve had for about a year and a half. About a month ago I started facing this issue where the laptop would just shut off and not turn back on for a while. I reset my graphics drivers, uninstalled windows and all my drivers and installed tiny11 (which I wanted to do for a while so this gave me a good excuse), reseated my ram, dusted inside, and disconnected the battery for about a half hour all to no avail. To be specific about the shut downs, anywhere ranging from 9 hours of uptime to immediately after I enter my password or even before that, the laptop will randomly shut off. This would be just an annoyance but something I could live with if it would just turn back on immediately after, the problem is after it does this, it could either turn itself back on (which usually results in it turning off for good immediately after I log in) or the power light stays on but the screen stays off, I hold the power button down till the light goes away and press it again so it comes back but the screen stays black and it only lights up my microphone not my keyboard. Then the only way to get it back on is to wait for a “Firmware Update…” screen then followed a couple minutes later by the CMOS checksum is invalid screen, only then a couple more minutes after that does the laptop turn on fully and repeats the cycle, my question is if anyone knows what could be causing the issue or has faced this issue and could give me advice on what to do to fix this.

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u/Kind_Profit_5761 — 4 days ago