E. L. Koba wrote:

Now instead of static, my laptop is stuttering whenever it's plugged in. Every 10-20 seconds it kind of freezes/stutters for 1/2 a second or so. If music is playing it sounds like a CD skipping. It's runs OK for about the first ten minutes after I turn on the computer, so it seems like it might be heat related. But the second I unplug it, it's perfectly fine.