Questions tagged [laptop-repair]
Questions about performing repairs on your mobile computer
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my laptop screen showing horizontal lines
I have horizontal bands on the top and bottom of my Dell Precision laptop screen. How do I make it go away?
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How do I open the case for a HP ENVY Notebook - 17-n152sa (ENERGY STAR)?
I have unscrewed every screw I can find and looked online for help, including the HP support and maintenence pages, YouTube and other obvious sources and scoured some web pages but for some reason can'...
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Dell EC not detected after Windows crashed accessing it but is detected again when accessing it after some time. EC failure or compatibility issue?
When accessing Dell Embedded Controller (EC), which should be a temperature sensor on Dell Studio XPS 1645 notebook PC with SpeedFan and HWInfo, Windows would randomly crash with BSOD with memory-...
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IBM Think Pad T40 not booting, screen never lights up.
so i had my buddie drop his old laptop, the display wont light up there seems to be some issues with the boot up. it doesn't seem like it evern starts the process but the start light are acting ...
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Laptop LCD T-Con
Is the t-con (timing control) board for a laptop lcd panel built into the panel itself, or is it a separate part that can be replaced like it is in televisions and desktop monitors?
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Asus Zenbook UX31A not booting
I have been trying to repair a Asus Zenbook UX31A for quite some time and would like to pick your brains, because I am finally out of ideas.
When I received the Zenbook it was not booting, not ...
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Power laptop battery without internal power circuit
I have two identical laptops and one of them is broken. I expect it has something to do with the charging circuit. The laptop works fine when it is provided with a full battery. But it doesn't receive ...
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Laptop charger turns off as soon as I plug it in to the laptop. Could it be a bad motherboard?
If I unplug the battery and attempt to power the laptop off just AC it works just fine, but as soon as I plug in the battery the charger turns off.
I've tried two different batteries and three ...
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What wires can I use to make an extension of LCD?
I want to put main part of laptop into a drawer, and put display on a desk.
Like this.
So I need to make wire extension of laptop's LCD wire (extend length), which connects LCD display with ...
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My laptop won't let me enter my password
This started a couple of days ago when my laptop's built-in keyboard suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. So I tried the usual "turn it off and turn it back on again" approach, and now I ...
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Acer Aspire 1694 not charging
I've a Acer Aspire 1694WLMi and it just stopped working.
When the charger is connected, its (the charger) green LED indicator starts flashing repeatedly but there's no life signal from the laptop. On ...
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Replacing notebook thermal pads
I happen to own 2 Acer Aspire notebooks - old 5737Z and newer V3-571G. One thing they have in common is overheating a lot (I wouldn't blame them, they were abused a lot). I heard it could help quite a ...
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orginal broken part from samsung, can't replace with unbroken
I have samsung NP550P5C laptop and I wanted to replace dvd driver with ssd. I took off dvd drive, and try to put ssd with case. but It doesn't fit. after that It made me wonder why It doesn't fit like ...
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Any guarantee that replacing the ATI graphic chip works
Im having a Dell studio 1558 laptop that was purchased 4 yrs ago and now im having a problem in booting the laptop.I gave it to a service center and they said some problem with ATI graphic chip and ...
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Extremely laggy touchpad after drop EDIT : After plugging to power source
LOOK at EDIT 4 at first!
I dropped my laptop - Acer Aspire 5742z and everything works fine but the touchpad.
It looks like touchpad send the information about position of finger every 500 ms or ...
