I bought my laptop for 350€ on Backmarket. I bought it because it was a decent price and looked sturdy. Well, actually this price wasn't for nothing. Ok you need to picture it. When I turn my computer on, it makes a buzzing sound, the kind of sounds old PCs used to make. When I hold it from the wrong corner, or put it a certain way on my lap, the whole thing freezes and needs to be rebooted with the power button. A laptop that is, indeed, not to be put on lap. One time, I don't know what happened, It became dead dead and I had to lend it to my techy friend to bring it back to life. I'm sorry, I can't remember what my friend did during the ressuscitation process. I absolutely love this computer. First of all, these buzzing sounds are really soothing to me in a nostalgic way. It reminds me of our first family computer, which had it's own desk, took 1-3 hours to power up or made a symphony of robotic sounds just to play pinball and scribble on Paint. Sometimes, the whole thing glitched.…
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I know you wrote you like it humming and buzzing. But all the symptoms you described lead to a problem with a cooling fan. It could be dirty, worn out, or something like a piece of plastic got into it. The repair should be cheap and the laptop will be running less hot and more stable ☺️