Questions tagged [defective-hardware]
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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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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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Freezes and glitches
Currently trying to diagnose the cause of some freezing issues with my windows machine.
Here are the current issues and steps I've taken to resolve this issue:
During windows session, usually 2-8 ...
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Strange bright/white bubbles beneath LCD screen
I've got an older generation x86 Macbook Pro that has some weird white bubbles embedded in the LCD. The actual pixels seem to be working fine (not dead or stuck), and when I put colored images in ...
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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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Does this HDTune result indicate a bad/damaged HDD?
Recently, my laptop started slowing down a lot more than usual, where it took more than 5 minutes to load Visual Studio (Before, it only took at max 30 seconds).
so I ran an HDTune Benchmark:
This ...
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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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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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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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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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LCD laptop display is greyed out on startup
I have just a small display problem with my laptop (HP Elitebook 8440p) running on Debian 8. Whenever the computer is booting up from sleep, my screen will either be flashing pixels everywhere, or be ...
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Display failure spreaded to half of monitor
I plugged my external 4K monitor (actual resolution 1920x1080 @ 60Hz) via DisplayPort to my laptop to extend the screen. This works fine for about 6 month. This week I got the following display ...
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