I'm in limbo land as my laptop is broken, it's going to the doctor tomorrow. Leaking acid from the battery and won't power up even with external power. My oldest said it's probably the motherboard :( . So I'm using old phone photos as I haven't been using it a lot recently. This is from a walk I went on and really heavily etsooi. In the grand scheme of things a broken laptop is just annoying really, just means I can't add film - my son told me I can put my hard drive in his laptop so may well try that
I don't know if you'll be able to do this (depends on the laptop) but you could try removing the battery and then run the laptop on mains power. If it's leaking, the battery might be causing the motherboard to trip.