Questions tagged [defective-hardware]
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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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Linux media box/mail server suffering filesystem/RAID errors, kernel panics
In the past week, the mini-ITX machine I built myself to serve mail and Samba shares has kernel panicked twice with filesystem-related stuff. Last night I noticed integrity errors when streaming a ...
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How to save a SATA HDD with a broken data connector?
While reconfiguring my home server, I discovered why my data drive isn't detected anymore:
This is an expensive 6-terabyte drive. I'm not asking whether it can be salvaged, I'm asking how?
I can ...
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What precautions should I take once defective RAM has been replaced?
I recently discovered that my RAM is faulty (MemTest86+). I am waiting for new RAM to be sent to me. It was through sheer luck that I discovered something was wrong. I was copying a large amount of ...
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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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How can I test a GPU completely to ensure all of it's components work properly?
I was unable to find a solution to this on Superuser, the GPU isn't overheating nor is it crashing, it simply provides wrong output and practically explodes sometimes.
I need to find a tool which ...
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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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Monitor fails randomly
I have an HP Pavillion 27xi LED IPS monitor that randomly fails and fails in different ways. In this I mean that some times it works for 30 seconds then goes black with the power light still on. Other ...
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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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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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How to increase laptop/notebook USB voltage?
USB ports typically provide anywhere between 5-6V.
If a laptop/notebook USB port is only producing between 4-5V;
What can be done to fix (i.e. boost/increase) the output voltage?
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