The Power Supply Issue with PC hardware

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Steve Ballmer must hate his life. His company builds this software, they then hand it to these bozos at Lenovo, and all of a sudden shit happens.

Latest problem.

The Lenovo Ideapad y500 has a dual SLI configuration for its 3D hardware. The problem with an SLI configuration is that it consumes a lot of power. I mean a lot of power.

To actually get the graphics hardware to run you need 170W power-supply.

Which is fine.

If you don’t need the graphics card, then 90W power supply will do just fine. And that is great. Because a 90W power supply costs 25$ these days and you can have several in your house.

And so here’s where the shit hits the fan. Last night I used a 90W power supply because I never paid attention to the 170W power requirements of my graphics cards.

And I spent two hours trying to figure out why my laptop was suddenly dropping frames, etc.

It was the frigging power supply.

Now I ask, why oh why, could Lenovo’s hardware monitors not just tell me that the problem was the power-supply? A simple warning? A notification? Something?

But no. Nothing.

Maybe there is a BIOS option for that…

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