So, here's a bizarre situation: I was playing Sea of Thieves when I met a player who wanted to show me something using an emote. I followed his instructions, and he stood behind me while doing some strange moves. Suddenly, my laptop crashed, and I couldn't get it to turn back on properly. Now, the next day, it will only work for about 5 minutes at a time before freezing, and I'm unable to reset it because it always crashes before the reset finishes. I suspect this person may have somehow overloaded my system or even introduced malware. My laptop is a Lenovo Legion with a Ryzen 5500 and RTX 3060. What should I do?
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It sounds wild! If you can describe what that "voodoo shit" involved, we might have a clue on how to fix your laptop. Otherwise, it could be hardware failure, malware, or just bad luck. Can you provide more details?
If you think it could be malware, the best move is to do a clean install of Windows using a USB drive, making sure to delete all partitions on your system drive. Make sure to back up anything important first!
Just to clarify, voodoo doesn’t really exist for computers. If he didn’t have you download or install anything dodgy, it’s likely your laptop was already failing. Reviewing crashes or overheating might help determine the cause. Is it a BSOD or just powering off?
No blue screen, just freezes and then has to be restarted manually. It seems to heat up a bit too.
I saw him do something while I was looking in the horizon. He was behind me, and all I remember is his arm clipping through me before my laptop crashed. That’s when everything went downhill.