I had one such laptop. It was always a crapshoot whether Windows updates (the big ones where it rebooted one or more times) would succeed or not before the laptop overheated and shut down. The reason was that the BIOS didn't do any power management and would always run the CPU at maximum power with the fans blowing like a jet engine. It was only once Windows (or Linux) was fully booted that they would take over and do proper power management. But the Windows updates were so slow that they would often spend too much time in that pre-boot environment leading to overheating and shutdown.
