Gaming laptop shut down mid game and wouldnt turn on, then made loud popping sounds.

Open | Windows

My gaming laptop shut down mid game and wouldn't turn on, the next minute it made a couple loud popping sounds, legit thought it's gonna blow up and cause a fire or something. let it cool off a bit and hold the power button for 30 seconds and plugged it back in and it turns on, but was that concerning before?? should i not use it until i get it checked at a repair shop?(i know nothing of pc's)

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 260 w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (3.80 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.3 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (8 GB)

AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (363 MB)

Storage 717 GB of 954 GB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Posted Sep 30, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

13

Comments aren't archived yet

This post had 3 comments on Reddit. Comments for this period haven't been loaded into the archive yet.