Back again with my crashing Windows 11 Leader laptop!

Thanks for all the good advice on my intermittently crashing laptop! Installing the drivers from the Leader site has made a big difference -- I can now play YouTube videos in Firefox with no fear of weird behaviour or crashes...

... until just now! The music video I was playing made a series of hideous metallic sounds, like the worst dubstep breakdown ever. Had to go feed the cats, and when I got back, Windows had rebooted.

Event Viewer gave me the following:

Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Processor-Power Date: 22/04/2026 11:53:19 AM Event ID: 37 Task Category: (7) Level: Warning Keywords: User: SYSTEM Computer: Leader Description: The speed of processor 7 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 71 seconds since the last report. Event Xml: ...

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