Questions tagged [defective-hardware]
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How can I access BIOS on an external monitor, when primary display is broken?
I am basically having the same issue as this (How to install access BIOS with broken screen) with my Sony VAIO VPCEB33FD (Windows 7).
The external monitor only works once Windows starts. I opened up ...
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Custom desktop reboots every 4 seconds
Any help would be so appreciated. My son and I recently put together a desktop from parts. Was working amazing for 3 weeks, then suddenly froze for the very first time. Did a hard shutdown, but when ...
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Defective PC replaced everything
two weeks ago my PC began not to give any signal to the monitor, mourse, or keyboard.
There are no beep sounds at all, all fans are turning on, GPU lights up, I'm not sure if its POSTing or not but ...
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Unusual designs inside of laptop LCD
Since last few days, I am noticing an unusual line like design in my laptop screen. If seen from front side, the line doesn't appear, but seen from upside, it is visible.
This image is showing the ...
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How to physically damage a USB stick, SD card, or SDXC card to permanently make it read only? [duplicate]
Over the years, I have had several cases where either an SD card, a USB stick or any other removable storage medium has had a physical defect, and after some use, or a certain amount of formatting, it ...
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Liquid spill Keyboard & Mouse = risk for the PC?
Great Monday start with my coffee spilled on my mechanical keyboard and my mouse...
I tried soaking up as much as possible but didn’t open them up to see.
For the keyboard when I removed the keys and ...
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Computer hissing while switched off
Apologies if this forum is not the right one but I am used to excellent advice here so here goes my question.
I have a second hand PC that is making a high pitched hissing sound even when it is ...
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Defective SD card or not? CHKDSK contradicts itself in scan report [duplicate]
Scans of a SD card in Windows PC lead to chains of clusters with similar numbers. Does this point to decfective SD card rather than to other possible causes (bad card reader, problems with flashcard ...
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Can a wireless router theoretically malfunctionally send out harmful frequencies? [closed]
My router has started to malfunction softwarewise, is it possible that the wireless router antenna is transmitting out wrong frequency electromagnetic radiation which is harmful to myself or other ...
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HP Officejet 7500a Won't Print in Color
As the title says, the printer just refuses to print in color. I got it second hand and just got around to setting it up after having it in storage for a while, so I don't know if it was defective ...
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Raid 6 Faulty disk wont rebuild but work in another server
I had a server with faulty drive in a Raid 6 array. Pulled out and back in the disk did not start the rebuild.
The same disk was swapped with another one in a backup server (same configuration as ...
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System building: two Asrock boards in a row with defective RAM?
I am still working on my new build 8700k with an ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6. The full story is documented here a long with a complete parts list but there's not much more to it other than "won't ...
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Does this show a defect in my Dell monitor, or is it acceptable?
After the system powers off, my monitor (Dell 3011 2560x1600) continues to display the contents of the video buffer for a LONG time. Right now the PC has been powered off and the display cable ...
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SSD disappears/shuts down while computer is running
so this is the first time I'm having a problem with a SSD.
Issue: While the computer is running - and has been for at least one hour - one of my SSDs suddenly 'disappears' for lack of a better word. ...
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