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You know - something that just felt really strange?
I had a couple of times where my computer (an older MacBook Pro) completely locked up. I just plugged in a USB cable and it just shut down immediately, but with it clearly powered on in one way or another. I could heard it buzzing. I had no way to shut it down (the power button isn't a traditional switch) and all attempts to shut it down were unsuccessful other than going in and disconnecting the battery connector. Then it powered up normally. When it happened again I knew how to handle it. However, according to Apple, the battery isn't user-serviceable and theoretically they could have denied any future repair since I messed with something I shouldn't have. They do consider the memory and drive to be user serviceable though. I tried to take it to an Apple Store, but they said I needed an appointment
My TV just locked up too last night. Sounded like machine-gun fire for about 30 seconds and it didn't respond to any inputs although it was stuck on whatever image was there when it locked up. But I held the remote's power button long enough and it restarted. Mine is a Samsung, and it came up with the power up screen that only shows up when the system has rebooted. I think it even said something about being Ryzen (that's an AMD processor?) equipped. Normal power on is usually much faster without the boot screen. However, I've had a few cases where nothing seemed to work normally, and the only way I could get it working again was to pull the power plug. However, a lot of these newer TVs are basically purpose-built computers with a large display running an operating system and programs.
I had a couple of times where my computer (an older MacBook Pro) completely locked up. I just plugged in a USB cable and it just shut down immediately, but with it clearly powered on in one way or another. I could heard it buzzing. I had no way to shut it down (the power button isn't a traditional switch) and all attempts to shut it down were unsuccessful other than going in and disconnecting the battery connector. Then it powered up normally. When it happened again I knew how to handle it. However, according to Apple, the battery isn't user-serviceable and theoretically they could have denied any future repair since I messed with something I shouldn't have. They do consider the memory and drive to be user serviceable though. I tried to take it to an Apple Store, but they said I needed an appointment
My TV just locked up too last night. Sounded like machine-gun fire for about 30 seconds and it didn't respond to any inputs although it was stuck on whatever image was there when it locked up. But I held the remote's power button long enough and it restarted. Mine is a Samsung, and it came up with the power up screen that only shows up when the system has rebooted. I think it even said something about being Ryzen (that's an AMD processor?) equipped. Normal power on is usually much faster without the boot screen. However, I've had a few cases where nothing seemed to work normally, and the only way I could get it working again was to pull the power plug. However, a lot of these newer TVs are basically purpose-built computers with a large display running an operating system and programs.