Topic
hardware
Laptops, monitors and the rest of the desk: real hardware problems, measured and fixed.
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HP Victus GPU Stuck at ~30 W, Low FPS at 99% GPU Usage: It Was "HW Power Braking" (EC Reset Fix)
HP Victus RTX 5050 stuck at 27 W with 99% GPU usage and low FPS. nvidia-smi showed HW Power Braking; an EC reset brought it back to 72 W.
Running hardware -
My Gaming Laptop Called Its Own Charger "Non-Original" and Throttled Everything — an EC Reset Fixed It
HP gaming laptop flagged its original charger and throttled CPU + GPU. Measuring it with PowerShell and nvidia-smi, and the EC reset that fixed it.
Running hardware